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Archaeologies of Remembrance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Archaeologies of Remembrance

How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.

Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages

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 a...

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1160

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 674

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1877
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Catalog of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1596

Catalog of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Dictionnaire général de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 1246

Dictionnaire général de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1878
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine françaises et étrangère
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 1214

Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine françaises et étrangère

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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