| Author | : James Schryver |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2010-09-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 900418175X |
This volume draws examples of work from around the Mediterranean basin to demonstrate the variety of archaeological studies being carried out, and the benefits each of these studies has enjoyed through the use of an interdisciplinary approach.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2010-09-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004187243 |
The medieval Mediterranean world has inspired a rich variety of archaeological studies aimed at trying to piece together its past. This volume presents seven case studies that reveal the complexities of and possible solutions for exploring various areas of the Mediterranean basin. Individually, they offer models of interdisciplinary study that move beyond the disciplinary boundaries of archaeology to integrate evidence from other fields ranging from history to town planning. As a whole, they provide the only collection of studies of their kind for the medieval Mediterraean. They thus provide readers with a view of a field that is vibrant, nuanced, and utilizes a methodological approach that is capable of greatly increasing our knowledge of the medieval Mediterranean world. Contributors are Tasha Vorderstrasse, Jon van Leuven, Cédric Devais, Michelle Hobart, Giulia Annalinda Neglia, Johnny De Meulemeester, and Sauro Gelichi.
| Author | : Vasileios Marinis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2021-02-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9782503583969 |
The book comprises fourteen essays addressing issues of art and architecture as well as archaeology within the context of sacred space, broadly defined and encompassing a wide range of territories, methodologies, approaches, and scholarly concerns. Our point of departure is the built environment, with all that this encompasses, including religious and political ceremony, painted interiors and illuminated manuscripts, patronage, contested space, structural and environmental concerns, sensory properties, the written word as it pertains to architectural projects, and imagined spaces. In all, the scholars involved in this project find fresh approaches and uncover new meanings and interpretations in the material approached within this volume, including buildings and objects found from Europe to Asia, spanning from Late Antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages.
| Author | : Roberta Gilchrist |
| Publisher | : Boydell Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1843837226 |
The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material practices of medieval life, death and the afterlife. Previous historical studies of the medieval "lifecycle" begin with birth and end with death. Here, in contrast, the concept of life course theory is developed for the first time in a detailed archaeological case study. The author argues that medieval Christian understanding of the "life course" commenced with conception and extended through the entirety of life, to include death and the afterlife. Five thematic case studies present the archaeology of medieval England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the household, the parish church and cemetery, and the relationship between the lives of people and objects. A wide range of sources is critically employed: osteology, costume, material culture, iconography and evidence excavated from houses, churches and cemeteries in the medieval English town and countryside. Medieval Life reveals the intimate and everyday relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.
| Author | : David Small |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-07-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004329404 |
This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean. After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts. This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.
| Author | : J. A. Szirmai |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-03-06 |
| Genre | : Bookbinding, Medieval |
| ISBN | : 9781138247321 |
An expanded version of a series of lectures, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA, this major volume surveys the evolution of binding structures from the introduction of the codex two thousand years ago to the close of the Middle Ages.
| Author | : Richard Hodges |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801492624 |
In this concise book, Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse review the 'Pirenne thesis' in the light of archaeological information from northern Europe, the Mediterranean and western Asia.
| Author | : Stanislava Kuzmova |
| Publisher | : Trivent Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2020-12-31 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 6158179302 |
This volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the visual art and the written text, the early Christian roots and medieval reception, the East and the West, as well as methodologies of various disciplines. The studies in this volume firstly investigate issues related to the Virgin Mary, and through them, also the status, function, and identity of women. Mary and the female element thus represent significant models and/or background figures in fields pertaining to theology, religious studies, textual studies, manuscript studies, and art history in a trans-disciplinary perspective. Secondly, the studies focus on the apostles and the Last Judgment, their visual representations and the use of apocryphal sources. The volume is divided in two parts according to two major topics: Part I dealing with Mary in the Apocrypha, and Part II focusing on the Apostles and the Last Judgment.
| Author | : John Schofield |
| Publisher | : Studie in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Archaeology, Medieval |
| ISBN | : 9781908049728 |
Owing to its pace of development, London is the medieval city in Europe most intensively studied by archaeologists. Although it is a study of a single medieval city, this book is a major contribution to the archaeology of Europe.
