Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed ...them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.
fyysinen kuvaus: Keihäänkärki, lyhyempi, poikkileikkaus kuvan mukainen. Kuvassa alarivillä, kolmas oikealta.
Physical description: Spear tip, shorter, cross-section as shown in the figure. In the ...picture on the bottom line, the third from the right.
Physical description: Minor bare missing kunurasolkl., with _ cross decorations.
fyysinen kuvaus: Pienempi paljinta puuttuva kunurasolkl.,_ ristikoristuksilla varustettu.
Documentamos el importante descubrimiento de un denario merovingio procedente deMasilia (Marsella) en la ciudad catalana de Tarragona (España). Debido a la escasez de esta tipología, no solamente en ...el suelo peninsular, creemos que su publicación es de una gran importancia. Y más aún considerando que el estudio de las relaciones comerciales tanto de corto como de largo recorrido entre el reino visigodo de Toledo y la Francia merovingia se mantiene poco desarrollado.
Potje van grauw bruine hardgebakken aarde, op en schijf gedraaid en buitenom van zeven rijen indruksels voorzien, gelijk men veelvuldig op het bij Wijk bij Duurstede gevonden aardewerk heeft ...aangetroffen, zie de oudh. Meded. Van dr. Janssen PLIII fig. 14 alsmede om de buik 14 horizontale insnijdingenop tamelijk evenwijdige afstanden en eveneens tot versiering aangebracht.
Een gouden solidus-hanger van de Frankische koning Chlotarius II (613-629). Vz: CHLOTARIUS REX; borstbeeld en profiel. Kz: CHLOTARIUS REX; een kruis boven xox en aan weerzijden van het kruis MA ...(ssilio).
