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Land and Ancestors
This volume includes an interdisciplinary research programme involving archaeological, anthropological and historical perspectives on different dimensions of the landscape. Although directed towards a specific region, the intensity of the archaeological fieldwork and the large scale of the excavations allow for interpretations that are important for the Northwest European Plain as a whole. Contributions include the publication of primary data of excavations published for the first time and analysis on a more abstract level. The studies include among others: Urnfield symbolism, ancestors and the land in the Lower Rhine Region (Roymans/Kortlang); Urnfield and settlement traces from the Iron Age at Mierlo-Hout (Tol); The archaeology and history of the curia of the abbey of St. Truiden at Hulsel (Theuws); Gift exchange, eternity and landed property. The foundation and endowment of the Premonstratensian priory at Postel (Bijsterveld).
Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages
The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed ‘places of power’, and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ‘high-level’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what ‘centres of power’ may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.
The Saint-Servatius Complex in Maastricht
From the contents:00The archaeology and history of the Saint-Servatiius complex in Maastricht (up to c. 1050).0Archaeological observations and excavations in and around the Vrijthof square in Maastricht: a review.0The vrijthof excavations 1969-1970: perceptions, politics, practices and problems.0The documentation and methods of analyses of the Vrijthof archaeological data.0The stratigraphic sequence and history of depositions on the Vrijthof square.0The Vrijthof cemeteries: their limits, state of preservation an estimated size.0Grave structures and theis analysis: theorethical and methodological considerations.0Inhumations: burial pits, grave constructions and disarticulate human remains.0The typo-chronological analysis of grave goods: methodology.0Finds.0The topo-chronological development of Merovingian cemetery 4 on the Vrijthof square.0The Carolingian cemetery 5.0Burial practices: overview of general and specific practices on the Vrijthof cemetery.0The Vrijthof square area and the early development of Maastricht as a town.0A catalogue of contexts and finds.0.
Rituals of Power
13 papers by 16 leading archaeologists and historians of late antiquity and the early middle ages break new ground in their discussion, analysis and criticism of present interpretations of early medieval rituals and their material correlates. Some deal with rituals relating to death, life cycles and the circulation in other contexts of objects otherwise used in the burial ritual. Others are concerned with the symbolism and ideology of royal power, the formation of a political ideology east of the Rhine from the mid-5th century onwards, and penance rituals in relation to Carolingian episcopal discourse on ecclesiastical power and morale. All deal with the creation of new identities, cultures, norms and values, and their expression in new rituals and ideas from the period of the Great Migrations through the Later Roman Empire down to the society of Beowulf and the later Carolingians.
Images of the Past
"Publication of the Pionier-project 'Power and Elite'"--P. facing t.p.
