Archaeology

ISBN: 9780802097064
Published by : University of Toronto Press
The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004206601
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments whe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268037321
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In addition to reassessing the available texts for the liturgy of the Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish church this study considers the social dimension of the Eucharist, its treatment in art and architecture, and its treatment as reflected by ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409428824
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Ansgar and Rimbert, ninth-century bishops and missionaries to Denmark and Sweden, are fixtures of medieval ecclesiastical history. Rare is the survey that does not pause to mention their work among the pagan peoples of the North and their found... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674060036
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Historia of Richer of Saint-Remi (ca. 950--ca. 1000), an invaluable source for understanding tenth-century West Francia (present-day France), provides a rare contemporary account of the waning Carolingian dynasty, accession of Hugh Capet, a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674061590
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Historia of Richer of Saint-Remi (ca. 950--ca. 1000), an
invaluable source for understanding tenth-century West Francia
(present-day France), provides a rare contemporary account of the
waning Carolingian dynasty, accession o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783867578523
Published by : Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
Concentrating on the southern North Sea zone, these papers investigate the importance of rivers as communication and trade routes, focusing in the main on the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. Further themes include the identification and role of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004211186
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This study presents a systematic analysis of the huge, and in most cases, completely new archaeological evidence for amber from Lithuania and the surrounding regions. A comprehensive synthesis of archaeological evidence and written sources prov... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308401
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Seven papers which aim to place early medieval insular sculpture more firmly in its social and cultural context, emphasising aspects of production and patronage, as well as the importance of monuments in the construction and maintenance of soc... .... Learn More