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This edited work presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the use of caves and rock shelters across Europe during the medieval period for a wide range of religious and spiritual purposes by Christian, Muslim, Pictish and non-denominational communities, at both regional and local levels.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bergsvik, Knut Andreas (Autor, Editor ), Dowd, Marion (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom ; Havertown, PA, United States : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Temas:
To 1500
Caves > Europe > Religious aspects > History > To 1500.
RELIGION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Caves > Religious aspects
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 asspociations 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 patters 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 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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