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Caves and ritual in medieval Europe, ad 500-1500

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Title Caves and ritual in medieval Europe, ad 500-1500 / edited by Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Marion Dowd.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Philadelphia, PA : Oxbow
Creation Date 2018
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Content Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 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 fi rst 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 associations 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 patterns 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 (fi fth to late seventh century AD) - Paolo de Vingo.
Chapter 11: The culture of rock-cut cemeteries and artifi cial 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 - Michal Wojenka -- Chapter 15: Medieval cave sites in the Czech Republic - Vladimír Peša -- Chapter 16: Bull Rock Cave (Býcí skála), Czech Republic, and its environs in the Middle Ages - Martin Golec -- Chapter 17: The form and fabric of Late Antique and medieval cave use in Slovenia - Agni Prijatelj -- Chapter 18: The triconchial medieval cave churches of Eski-Kermen (Crimea): recent results of investigations - Nicolas V. Dneprovsky.
Extent 1 online resource (506 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997010703889805171
MARC RECORDS
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