Essays about: "Early medieval"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 essays containing the words Early medieval.
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1. To Gender or Not to Gender : A critical reassessment of how gender is – and can be – approached in archaeology, exemplified in two Scandinavian burial assemblages dating to the early Medieval period
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Gender research in archaeology is a complex topic that puzzled scholars for decades. The past 50 years of it has seen a lot of theorizing, heated discussions, and requests for new additions to the archaeological toolkit so that this type of research can get a proper launch. READ MORE
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2. Servants on Earth : The Death-transcending Social Network of a Saint, as Evidenced by Early Fifteenth-century Swedish Miracle Tales
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The cult of the saints was a widespread and important element of medieval European society. It is also an area of history where historians’ explanations of events are usually very different from those of the historical actors studied. This thesis is an attempt to find some common ground between them. READ MORE
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3. Roots of Institutional Transformation: Hamburg in the late 16th and early 17th centuries
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This study examines the beginnings of Hamburg’s institutional transformation from a predominantly Hanseatic-style city to a Northern European financial and economic center. Existing literature has repeatedly pointed out the importance of migrants in the diffusion of economic institutions in the early modern period. READ MORE
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4. Judging a loaf by its appearance : A protocol to study bread and bread-like fragments based on the study cases of Gamla Uppsala, Valsgärde, and Gnista
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Bread is an important cultural and social marker, and it occurs in many contexts, often preserved as carbonised. However, as bread fragments are typically small and anonymous, their total value of them is not appreciated. Often bread material is grouped simply as organic and not considered. READ MORE
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5. An Archaeology of the Invisible? Tracing Poverty and its Ideology in the Viking Age and Urban Settlements
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : Publications have recently drawn attention to archaeology’s historically predominant focus on prestige items and the elite, highlighting the need for a greater focus on society’s lower classes. A few studies have discussed how, or even whether poverty can be addressed in historical archaeology. READ MORE
