| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 417 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; v. 18 |
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Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; v. 18.
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| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: History and Archaeology -- Archaeology and Historiography -- Commentary One: Archaeology and its discontents -- Part Two: Un-Roman Activities -- Introduction to Part Two -- The origins of the Reihengräberzivilisation : Forty years on -- Archaeology and the Late Roman Frontier in Northern Gaul : The so-called Föderatengräber reconsidered -- Commentary Two: Careful with that axe, Eugenius -- Childeric's Grave, Clovis' Succession, and the Origins of the Merovingian Kingdom -- Commentary Three: Once more unto Saint-Brice -- Part Three: Burials, Rituals, and Commemoration -- Introduction to Part Three -- Burial, Ritual, and Merovingian Society -- Burial Writes : Graves, "Texts" and Time in Early Merovingian Northern Gaul -- Commentary Four: Ritual and Commemoration -- Examining the Christianization of the region of Metz from archaeological sources (5th-7th Centuries) : Problems, possibilities and implications for Anglo-Saxon England -- Part Four: Age and Gender in Merovingian Social Organisation -- Introduction to Part Four -- Female status and power in early Merovingian central Austrasia : the burial evidence -- Commentary Five: Grave-Goods, Female Status, and the Cemetery of Ennery -- Material Culture, Sex, Gender, Sexuality and Transgression in Sixth-Century Gaul -- Merovingian Masculinities -- Growing up in Merovingian Gaul |
| Summary |
Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships between documentary history and archaeology while the subsequent articles cover the interpretation of fourth-century Gallic furnished inhumations, the celebrated burial of King Childeric I, and the ways in which one might 'read' a burial as evidence for ritual. The final part of the book looks at the social history of Merovingian communities as revealed in cemetery evidence, looking at gender, sexuality and age. The reprinted chapters are accompanied by two wholly rewritten pieces and two entirely new articles. Finally, the book contains five extended 'commentaries' on the debates to which these chapters contributed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 18, 2020) |
| SUBJECT |
Merowinger. swd |
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Merovingians -- Social life and customs
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Merovingians -- Funeral customs and rites
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Merovingians -- Antiquities
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Archaeology and history -- France
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Cemeteries -- Gaul -- History
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Burial -- Gaul -- History
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Gaul -- History
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Community life -- Gaul -- History
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HISTORY.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology and history
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Burial
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Cemeteries
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Community life
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Manners and customs
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Merovingians -- Antiquities
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Gesellschaftsleben
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Friedhof
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Bestattungsritus
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France -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051170
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Gaul -- Social life and customs
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Europe -- Gaul
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France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047444299 |
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9047444299 |
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1282951300 |
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9781282951303 |
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9786612951305 |
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6612951303 |
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