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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology |
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Routledge library editions. Archaeology ; 22.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Translator's Introduction; Chapter 1. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY; I. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY AS PART OF THE HISTORY DISCIPLINE; II. HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN GERMANY; a) Early Medieval Cemeteries; b) Churches and Churchyards; c) Settlements; d) Fortifications and Palaces; e) Contribution to Important Questions in Medieval Research; III. DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES; a) Subject Boundaries; b) Chronological Limits |
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IV. ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHa) Federal Republic of Germany: the West; b) Federal Republic of Germany: the East (former GDR); c) Neighbouring Countries; d) Addresses; V. UNIVERSITY COURSES IN MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN GERMANY; Chapter 2. THE SOURCES AND THEIR ANALYSIS; I. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND INVENTORIES; II. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING; a) Aerial Photography; b) Geophysical Survey; c) Chemical Prospecting; d) Botanical Prospecting; III. EXCAVATION METHODS AND DATING; a) Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology |
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B) Stratigraphically-Tied Finds and Absolute Chronologyartefacts; finds and samples as the objects of scientific dating techniques; c) Results; d) Archaeological and Historical Dating; e) Some Remarks on Excavation Techniques; IV. EVALUATION OF THE EXCAVATION; a) The Archaeological Study; b) Scientific and Specialists' Reports; c) Textual and Other Sources; V. PUBLICISING THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH; a) Academic Information; b) Information for the Wider Public; Chapter 3. CEMETERIES, CHURCHES, AND CHURCHYARDS; I. CEMETERIES; a) Cremation; b) Inhumations; c) Grave-Goods |
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D) Social and Economic Historye) Anthropological Research; f) The Structure of the Cemeteries; g) Cemeteries with 'Christian' Grave-Goods; II. CHURCHES; a) Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Question of Continuity into the Early Middle Ages; b) Missionary Activity and the Spread of Christianity; c) The Relationship of Cemeteries to Churches and Churchyards; d) The End and Continuity of the Custom of Burial with Grave-Goods; e) Burial in Churches, Founders' Graves, and Private Churches; f) The Cult of Relics: Reliquaries and Holy Graves; g) Churches, Bishoprics, and Monasteries |
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H) ChurchyardsIII. FINDINGS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; Chapter 4. DEFENSIVE SITES: FORTS, CASTLES, AND PALACES; I. EARLY MEDIEVAL FORTIFICATIONS; a) Large Central-Place Forts from the Migration to the Early Carolingian Period in Southern and Central Germany; alemannic fortifications; frankish fortifications; ducal or royal fortifications and early aristocratic fortifications of the Carolingian period; b) Carolingian-Ottonian Fortifications with Central-Place Functions in Southern Germany; c) Early to Central Medieval Fortifications with Central-Place Functions in Northern Germany |
| Summary |
Medieval archaeology is a relatively young discipline. It relies heavily on and contributes to the neighbouring disciplines of history and geography as well as certain of the natural sciences. The kinds of sources investigated in the context of medieval archaeology also cast light on many aspects of life in later centuries. The main sources used are: graveyards, churches and churchyards; castles and fortifications; rural and urban settlements; technical production sites and routes of communication. Closely allied to these are the numerous finds of small objects of everyday life .. |
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D) Slavic Fortifications with Central-Place Functions |
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Print version record |
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Archaeology, Medieval -- Germany
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Germany
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology, Medieval
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Germany -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001001
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Europe
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Germany
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317605119 |
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131760511X |
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