Paganisme, christianisation et rites funéraires mérovingiens

Young, Bailey K.

doi:10.3406/arcme.1977.1323

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“…The idea, once popular among both Anglo-Saxon and Continental medieval archaeologists, that burial with grave goods could distinguish pagan from Christian cemeteries has been repeatedly challenged, and is now untenable, because it is clear that the early medieval church in the West tolerated burial with grave goods (Young 1977(Young , 1999Hadley 2000a;Blair forthcoming). It has been argued that the presence of grave goods in burials in an ecclesiastical setting offers proof that grave goods were not placed in graves for primarily religious reasons (Janes 2000: 8).…”

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Votive deposition, religion and the Anglo-Saxon furnished burial ritual

Crawford¹

2004

World Archaeology

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Anglo-Saxon archaeology can offer very few examples of deliberate, irretrievable deposition outside the mortuary arena, unlike the British and Continental archaeological evidence for the Roman and Iron Ages. With the exception of the furnished cemetery sites, Anglo-Saxon archaeology is notably short of 'ritual' deposits or structures until the arrival of Christianity, and we are equally short of ritual centres or sites expressing communal effort. It may be that any belief systems supported by the people inhabiting lowland England between the ending of Roman Britain and the Conversion left no surviving archaeological trace. In this context, however, furnished burials, accepted by archaeologists as a ritual display for an audience, may be ready for reinterpretation. Recent evaluation of Anglo-Saxon mortuary ritual has studied furnished burial almost solely in terms of conspicuous display, social organization and the relationship between the individual and the symbolic social messages of the goods with which they were buried. This paper argues that a rigid distinction between 'votive' and 'burial' deposition could be misleading, and that this distinction may be preventing us from seeing that the mortuary ritual should be recognized as an expression of a communal belief system, as well as carrying other important social messages.

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Votive deposition, religion and the Anglo-Saxon furnished burial ritual

Crawford¹

2004

World Archaeology

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“…Although rare, animal deposits have been identified in early medieval graves in Gaul (Salin 1952;Young 1977;Gleize 2006aGleize , 2006bDierkens et al 2008). They are thought to have been rare because the practice was discouraged by the Church.…”

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“…It seems that funeral deposits of horses end after the High Empire (Arbogast et al 2002;Bel 2002;Moliner 2003;Pluton-Kliesch et al 2008). Indeed in the early Middle Ages, while horse burial is common in the Rhineland (Müller-Wille 1970-71, 1997Oexle 1984;Mittermeier 1986;Brulet 1991;Le Bec 2002;Carver 2005;Dierkens et al 2008), other kinds of faunal remains seem to be almost absent from graves (Young 1977;Treffort 1994). This absence of animal deposits from early medieval burials in Gaul had been linked to ecclesiastic interdictions against funerary banquets and sacrifices, although this explanation is now being questioned (Young 1977;Treffort 1994;Gleize 2006a).…”

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An unusual Late Antique funerary deposit with equid remains (Usseau, France)

Gleize

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Armand

2010

Antiquity

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“…95 Religious change could be signifi cant in the disappearance of pottery vessels, which might result from a cessation of grave offerings. See Baldwin 1985, 101 on religious factors in burial practice, and Young 1977. 96 Wild 1970, 89-103;Desrosiers and Lorquin 1998;Bédat et al 2005. 97 Desrosiers and Lorquin 1998, 63, 67, cat. no.…”

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Identifying Migrant Communities: A Contextual Analysis of Grave Assemblages from Continental Late Roman Cemeteries

Swift

2010

Britannia

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Focusing on late Roman bracelets, and also including other relevant material culture types, this paper brings together an examination of spatial distribution, distribution by site-type, and selected specifi c burial contexts to investigate provincial Roman material of non-local origin. Using this methodology, it is suggested that migrant communities can be identifi ed at KrefeldGellep in the Rhineland

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Paganisme, christianisation et rites funéraires mérovingiens

Cited by 60 publications

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Votive deposition, religion and the Anglo-Saxon furnished burial ritual

Votive deposition, religion and the Anglo-Saxon furnished burial ritual

An unusual Late Antique funerary deposit with equid remains (Usseau, France)

Identifying Migrant Communities: A Contextual Analysis of Grave Assemblages from Continental Late Roman Cemeteries

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