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Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe
This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional.
Human Sacrifice and Value
The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council’s generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project (FRIPROHUMSAM 275947). It explores concepts of human sacrifice. This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value – or multiplicity of values – in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings. Bridging a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, it analyses a spectrum of sacrificial logics and actions, daring us to rethink the scholarship of sacrifice by...
Martin Luther and the Arts
Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth elucidate Luther’s theory and practice of the arts to reach audiences and convince them of his Reformation message using a range of strategies, including music, images and drama.
Auf den Spuren alter Kulturen - Band IV
Entstehung und Ausbreitung der menschlichen Zivilisation sowie Entwicklung von Kunst, Kultur, Wissenschaft und Technik alter Völker und Kulturen stehen seit 1973 im Mittelpunkt der Vereinstätigkeit des Freundeskreises Alte Kulturen Freiberg. Im Oktober 2023 begeht der Freundeskreis Alte Kulturen sein 50-jähriges Bestehen. Aus diesem Anlass erscheint der vierte Band der Vereinschronik. In bislang über 550 Veranstaltungen "führte" der Verein seine Mitglieder und Gäste zu den Schauplätzen alter Kulturen in über 80 Ländern auf allen Kontinenten und ließ so Geschichte lebendig werden. Namhafte Referenten haben diesen Weg begleitet. Vorliegender Band knüpft unmittelbar an die bisher erschienenen Bände an und widerspiegelt im Teil I insbesondere die Vereinstätigkeit von 2019 bis 2023. Im Teil II führen Referenten und Vereinsmitglieder in ihren Beiträgen erneut weltweit zu den Schauplätzen alter Kulturen und spannen so zeitlich und geographisch einen weiten Bogen. Insoweit richtet sich auch dieser Band erneut an alle archäologisch und geschichtlich Interessierte und nicht nur an die Mitglieder und Referenten des Freundeskreises Alte Kulturen.
Ancestral Landscapes
This volume provides a study of the burial mound phenomenon which emerged in large parts of Europe during the Copper and Bronze Ages, with a major focus on the Mediterranean and eastern European regions. 51 papers are grouped into sections dealing with the symbolism of burial mounds, the relationship between landscapes, landmarks and cultural identity, burial customs as rituals and a new look at theories on diffusionism. They define the natural and cultural contexts in which tumulus burial architecture first appeared and attempt to explain the ideological, social and ritual meaning of burial mounds as community monuments. Most contributions include new evidence from excavations and surface surveys; some provide a re-examination of old data, including skeletal remains. The subjects discussed concern not only funerary practices and beliefs but also further archaeological issues such as landscapes and land use, early exploitation of metal resources, the organization of long-distance exchange, interaction networks, and the emergence of complexity in human societies.
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultures of the Eurasian steppe, and investigates its possible influence on Central and Northern European art. A wide range of individual cultures are "visited" and their historic, cultural, and geographic specifics are explored. The survey in this book is based on a chronological structure, including an East-West geographic direction. This accommodates to position described artefacts of certain styles within time periods, cultures, and locations. Most of the existing literature related to cultures of the Eurasian steppe is specialised on one particula...
Fauna and Flora in the Middle Ages
How did humans and their behaviour affect and change the natural world during the Middle Ages? And what, in turn, was the impact of environmental changes on the minds and identities of humans? In this book historians of literature, art, mentalities, law and natural science suggest answers to these questions, focussing on the most vital elements of Europe's environment: animals, plants, and landscape. In their interdisciplinary approach, wide variety of source material and specific findings, these studies present a multifaceted picture of environmental history and reveal a broad range of attitudes towards the natural world current in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Moreover these case studies help us to understand various ways in which medieval developments shaped our modern world and minds.
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