The Archaeology of Medieval Germany by Fehring, Günter P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Translator’s Introduction Chapter 1. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

I. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY AS PART OF THE HISTORY DISCIPLINE II. HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN GERMANY

a) Early Medieval Cemeteries b) Churches and Churchyards c) Settlements d) Fortifications and Palaces e) Contribution to Important Questions in Medieval Research

III. DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES

a) Subject Boundaries b) Chronological Limits

IV. ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

a) Federal Republic of Germany: the West b) Federal Republic of Germany: the East (former GDR) c) Neighbouring Countries d) Addresses

V. UNIVERSITY COURSES IN MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN GERMANY

Chapter 2. THE SOURCES AND THEIR ANALYSIS

I. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND INVENTORIES II. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING

a) Aerial Photography b) Geophysical Survey c) Chemical Prospecting d) Botanical Prospecting

III. EXCAVATION METHODS AND DATING

a) Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology b) Stratigraphically-Tied Finds and Absolute Chronology

artefacts finds and samples as the objects of scientific dating techniques

c) Results d) Archaeological and Historical Dating e) Some Remarks on Excavation Techniques

IV. EVALUATION OF THE EXCAVATION

a) The Archaeological Study b) Scientific and Specialists’ Reports c) Textual and Other Sources

V. Publicising the Results OF Research

a) Academic Information b) Information for the Wider Public

Chapter 3. CEMETERIES, CHURCHES, AND CHURCHYARDS

I. CEMETERIES

a) Cremation b) Inhumations c) Grave-Goods d) Social and Economic History e) Anthropological Research f) The S tructu re of the Cemeteries g) Cemeteries with ‘Christian’ Grave-Goods

II. CHURCHES

a) Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Question of Continuity into the Early Middle Ages b) Missionary Activity and the Spread of Christianity c) The Relationship of Cemeteries to Churches and Churchyards d) The End and Continuity of the Custom of Burial with Grave-Goods e) Burial in Churches, Founders’ Graves, and Private Churches f) The Cult of Relics: Reliquaries and Holy Graves g) Churches, Bishoprics, and Monasteries h) Churchyards

III. FINDINGS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Chapter 4. DEFENSIVE SITES: FORTS, CASTLES, AND PALACES

I. EARLY MEDIEVAL FORTIFICATIONS

a) Large Central-Place Forts from the Migration to the

Early Carolingian Period in Southern and Central Germany alemannic fortifications 90; frankish fortifications 95 ducal or royal fortifications and early aristocratic fortifications of the Carolingian period

b) Carolingian-Ottonian Fortifications with Central-Place Functions in Southern Germany c) Early to Central Medieval Fortifications with Central-Place Functions in Northern Germany d) Slavic Fortifications with Central-Place Functions

fortifications of the land-taking period: the sixth and seventh centuries fortifications in early urban development national fortifications as centres of large tribal states

e) Conclusions

II. DONJONS AND MOTTES; NOBLES’ SMALL CASTLES OF THE MIDDLE AGES

a) Donjon, Keep, Tower b) Mottes c) Rights of Fortification d) Lordly Manors and Fortified Manors (Moated Sites) e) Small Forts of the Slavic Nobility

III. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CASTLES IN THE CENTRAL TO LATER MIDDLE AGES

a) Castle Corpus and the Development of Castle Categories b) Castle Excavations

IV. ROYAL PALACES AND ESTATES

a) Carolingian Palaces b) Ottoman Palaces c) Palaces of the Staufen Period

V. BLOCKADES AND REFUGES VI. LINEAR EARTH-WORKS AND TERRITORIAL DEFENCES

Chapter 5. RURAL AND URBAN SETTLEMENTS

I. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS II. RURAL SETTLEMENT

a) Building and Topographic Elements

house building in wood: types of construction and types of houses log ‘block’ construction timber-framed construction types of timberframed buildings 155; ’housescape’ farmsteads settlements

b) The Cultural Landscape and its Use

terraced fields ridge and furrows

c) Economic and Social Structures

arable, animal husbandry; and nutrition rural handicrafts and domestic production specialised industrial settlements in the rural countryside

d) Settlement History and Processes of Colonisation and Abandonment

III. URBAN SETTLEMENTS, THE CONCEPT OF THE TOWN, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

a) Proto-Urban Sites and Early Towns

former roman towns and continuity in the early Middle Ages town-like hillforts of the early Middle Ages trading sites and manufacturing settlements of the early Middle Ages early urban settlements of the west Slavic tribes urban-like market and palace settlements of the tenth and eleventh centuries

b) The Fully Developed Town of the Central and Later Middle Ages

development processes and conditions topography building types and their functions infrastructure: provision of water, disposal of waste, and sanitation economy, daily life, and social structures

IV. ARCHAEOLOGY OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

a) Traffic on the Land b) Waterways

Chapter 6. THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOLOGY TO MEDIEVAL RESEARCH

I. HISTORICAL QUESTIONS II. ARCHAEOLOGY AND COOPERATION WITH NEIGHBOURING DISCIPLINES

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