Cemeteries and society in Merovingian Gaul : selected studies in history and archaeology, 1992-2009
"Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships between documentary history and archaeology while the subsequent articles cover the interpretation of fourth-century Gallic furnished inhumations, the celebrated burial of King Childeric I, and the ways in which one might 'read' a burial as evidence for ritual. The final part of the book looks at the social history of Merovingian communities as revealed in cemetery evidence, looking at gender, sexuality and age. The reprinted chapters are accompanied by two wholly rewritten pieces and two entirely new articles. Finally, the book contains five extended 'commentaries' on the debates to which these chapters contributed."--BOOK JACKET
Brill's series on the early middle ages /.
History
xvi, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9789004179998, 9004179992
456977491
Pt. 1. History and Archaeology
Ch. 1. Archaeology and Historiography
Commentary 1. Archaeology and its discontents
Pt. 2. Un-Roman Activities: Cemeteries and Frankish Settlement, 1992-2009
Ch. 2. The origins of the Reihengraberzivilisation: Forty years on
Ch. 3. Archaeology and the Late Roman Frontier in Northern Gaul: The so-called Foderatengriiber reconsidered
Commentary 2. Careful with that axe, Eugenius
Ch. 4. Childeric's Grave, Clovis' Succession, and the Origins of the Merovingian Kingdom
Commentary 3. Once more unto Saint-Brice
Pt. 3. Burials, Rituals and Commemoration: The Evolution of an Idea. 1995-2009
Ch. 5. Burial, Ritual and Merovingian Society
Ch. 6. Burial Writes: Graves, "Texts" and Time in Early Merovingian Northern Gaul
Commentary 4. Ritual and Commemoration
Ch. 7. Examining the Christianization of the region of Metz from archaeological sources (5th-7th Centuries): Problems, possibilities and implications for Anglo-Saxon England
Pt. 4. Age and Gender in Merovingian Social Organisation
Ch. 8. Female status and power in early Merovingian central Austrasia: the burial evidence
Commentary 5. Grave-Goods, Female Status and the Cemetery of Ennery
Ch. 9. Material Culture, Sex, Gender, Sexuality and Transgression in Sixth-Century Gaul
Ch. 10. Merovingian Masculinities
Ch. 11. Growing up in Merovingian Gaul