The Public Archaeology of Treasure

The Public Archaeology of Treasure
Author: Howard Williams
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803273119

Select proceedings of the 5th University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference (31 January 2020) reflect on the shifting and conflicting meanings, values and significances for treasure in archaeology’s public engagements, interactions and manifestations.

Medieval Weapons

Medieval Weapons
Author: Robert D. Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2007-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN:

This fascinating reference covers the weapons and armor used by warriors from the 4th to the 15th century and discusses how and why they changed over time. In the Middle Ages, the lack of standardized weapons meant that one warrior's arms were often quite different from another's, even when they were fighting on the same side. And with few major technological advances in that period, the evolution of those weapons over the centuries was incremental. But evolve they ultimately did, bringing arms, armor, and siege weapons to the threshold of the modern era. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the inexorable transformation from warrior in the mail shirt to fully armored knight, from the days of spears and swords to the large-scale adoption of the handgun. Medieval Weapons covers this fascinating expanse of centuries in chapters devoted to the early medieval, Carolingian, Crusade, and late medieval periods. Within each period, the book details how weapons and armor were developed, what weapons were used for different types of battles, and how weapons and armor both influenced, and were influenced by, changing tactics in battles and sieges.

Rituals of Power

Rituals of Power
Author: Frans Theuws
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004477551

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.

Barbaric Splendour: The Use of Image Before and After Rome

Barbaric Splendour: The Use of Image Before and After Rome
Author: Toby F. Martin
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789696607

This book comprises a collection of essays comparing late Iron Age and Early Medieval art. Fundamentally, the book asks what making images meant on the fringe of the expanding or contracting Roman empire, particularly as the art from both periods drew heavily from – but radically transformed – imperial imagery.

Carolingian Connections

Carolingian Connections
Author: Joanna Story
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 135195332X

The Anglo-Saxon influence on the Carolingian world has long been recognised by historians of the early medieval period. Wilhelm Levison, in particular, has drawn attention to the importance of the Anglo-Saxon contribution to the cultural and ecclesiastical development of Carolingian Francia in the central decades of the eighth century. What is much less familiar is the reverse process, by which Francia and Carolingian concepts came to influence contemporary Anglo-Saxon culture. In this book Dr Story offers a major contribution to the subject of medieval cultural exchanges, focusing on the degree to which Frankish ideas and concepts were adopted by Anglo-Saxon rulers. Furthermore, by concentrating on the secular context and concepts of secular government as opposed to the more familiar ecclesiastical and missionary focus of Levison's work, this book offers a counterweight to the prevailing scholarship, providing a much more balanced overview of the subject. Through this reassessment, based on a close analysis of contemporary manuscripts - particularly the Northumbrian sources - Dr Story offers a fresh insight into the world of early medieval Europe.

The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Author: Angela Care Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

Forschungsgeschichte - Schmuckstein - Sozialgeschichte/Alltag.

The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage

The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage
Author: Anna Gannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003-04-24
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780199254651

This is the first scholarly art historical appraisal of early Anglo-Saxon coinage. Anna Gannon examines the many coins produced during this most vibrant period of English coinage. She analyses their prototypes and explores their sources and parallels with contemporary arts, literature, and theology, setting their meaning in context.