Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe, AD 500-1500.

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Caves and rockshelters in Europe have traditionally been associated with prehistory, and in some regions cave archaeology has become synonymous with the Palaeolithic. However, there is abundant evidence that caves and rockshelters were important foci for activities in historic times. During the medi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bergsvik, Knut
Otros Autores: Dowd, Marion
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2017.
Temas:
Caves-Europe-History-1492-
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of contributors
  • Chapter 1: Caves and rockshelters in medieval Europe: religious and secular use
  • Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Marion Dowd
  • PART I: NORTHWESTERN EUROPE
  • Chapter 2: Entering other realms: Sámi burials in natural rock cavities and caves in northern Fenno-Scandinavia between 900 BC and AD 1700
  • Asgeir Svestad
  • Chapter 3: The perception and use of caves and rockshelters in Late Iron Age and medieval western Norway c. AD 550-1550
  • Knut Andreas Bergsvik
  • Chapter 4: A holy cave and womb: the sanctuary on the island of Selja and the birth of the first Norwegian saints
  • Alf Tore Hommedal
  • Chapter 5: Signs from the Pictish underground: early medieval cave ritual at the Sculptor's Cave, north-east Scotland
  • Lindsey Büster and Ian Armit
  • Chapter 6: Marking caves in Scotland and Iceland: characterising an early medieval phenomenon
  • Kristján Ahronson
  • Chapter 7: Saintly associations with caves in Ireland from the early medieval period (AD 400-1169) through to recent times
  • Marion Dowd
  • PART II: IBERIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
  • Chapter 8: Hidden in the depths, far from people: Funerary activities in the Lower Gallery of La Garma and the use of natural caves as burial places in early medieval Cantabria, northern Spain
  • Pablo Arias, Roberto Ontañón, Enrique Gutiérrez Cuenca, José Ángel Hierro Gárate, Francisco Etxeberria, Lourdes Herrasti and Paloma Uzquiano
  • Chapter 9: Christian and Muslim patterns of secular and religious cave use in the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (fifth/sixth to eleventh/twelfth centuries AD)
  • Manel Feijoó
  • Chapter 10: The occupation and use of natural caves in the Ligurian-Piedmontese region between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (fifth to late seventh century AD)
  • Paolo de Vingo.
  • Chapter 11: The culture of rock-cut cemeteries and artificial ritual caves in Roman and Byzantine Malta
  • Mario Buhagiar
  • Chapter 12: Investigating cave dwelling in medieval Malta (AD 800-1530)
  • Keith Buhagiar
  • PART III: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
  • Chapter 13: The use of caves for religious purposes in early medieval Germany (AD 500-1200)
  • Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm
  • Chapter 14: Knights in the dark: on the function of Polish caves in the Middle Ages
  • Michał Wojenka
  • Chapter 15: Medieval cave sites in the Czech Republic
  • Vladimír Peša
  • Chapter 16: Bull Rock Cave (Býčí skála), Czech Republic, and its environs in the Middle Ages
  • Martin Golec
  • Chapter 17: The form and fabric of Late Antique and medieval cave use in Slovenia
  • Agni Prijatelj
  • Chapter 18: The triconchial medieval cave churches of Eski-Kermen (Crimea): recent results of investigations
  • Nicolas V. Dneprovsky.

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