Material Culture and Social History in Early Medieval Western Europe
Historians of the early Middle Ages (c. 600-c. 1050) have long used material remains and archeological evidence to learn about that era. Over the last four decades, material culture studies have become a prominent area of historical research, particularly for cultural historians. Recent early mediev...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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History compass
Year: 2014, Volume: 12, Issue: 10, Pages: 784-793 |
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| Summary: | Historians of the early Middle Ages (c. 600-c. 1050) have long used material remains and archeological evidence to learn about that era. Over the last four decades, material culture studies have become a prominent area of historical research, particularly for cultural historians. Recent early medieval studies have followed this trend. In addition, religious and economic studies of the so-called "Dark Ages" have drawn from material sources. Object-driven social history has been less popular, but recent work, especially on Francia and Anglo-Saxon England, demonstrates that such projects offer new findings on a period whose texts rarely address social relations and everyday life directly. Material culture therefore offers rich research possibilities for early medieval social history. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12193 |
