Belgrade, 2007. — 184 p. This book is the first synthetic study about mediaeval swords from Balkans and Carpathian basin i.e. Balkan peninsula with all former Yugoslav republics, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. It include over the 400 sword finds from this territory in Catalogue with 18 plates and additional 37 illustrations, drawings and photographs of swords and...
Aarhus University Press, 2013. — 418 p. In late Antiquity, archaeology demonstrates lively and far-flung exchange along the river Dniester, through current Poland to the Baltic. By the 11th century the former Barbaricum had been transformed into a string of Christian kingdoms and principalities, whose parallel histories are as conspicious as their differences. From the...
London — New York: Routledge, 2005. — xx, 262 p. — ISBN 0-203-98466-8 (Master e-book ISBN); 0-415-17361-2 (Print Edition). Crusader Archaeology examines what life was like for European settlers in the Latin East and how they were influenced by their new-found neighbours. Incorporating recent excavation results and the latest research, this new edition updates the only detailed...
Reaktion Books, 2017. — 248 P. — (Lost Civilizations). — ISBN: 9781780237183. The civilizations of Greece and Rome that flourished in Mediterranean Europe did not develop in isolation. To their north, non-literate peoples inhabited river valleys, mountains, plains and coasts from the Atlantic to the Urals. Their story, known almost exclusively through archaeological finds of...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 292 p. Fortress-Churches of Languedoc traces the changing relationship between military and religious realms as expressed in architecture across medieval Europe. The scholarship of medieval architecture has traditionally imposed a division between military and ecclesiastical structures. Often, however, medieval churches were provided with...
Praha: Nákladem vlastním, 1940. — 113 s. Vpravdě průkopnické dílo představuje Borkovského kniha Staroslovanská keramika ve střední Evropě. Vydal ji vlastním nákladem v roce 1940, po nátlaku ze strany oficiálních představitelů říšskoněmecké prehistorie v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava ji sice musel záhy stáhnout z distribuce, ovšem na jejích závěrech staví středoevropská...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 541 p. This is the first academic book which concentrates on the discoveries of medieval date (6th- 13th centuries) from the territory of modern Poland. The book covers the principal research questions, such as the origins of the Slavs, societies of the proto-state period and the origins of the Polish state. The volume also includes a...
Chełm, 2016. — 324 s. — ISBN: 978-83-89942-39-5. Badania, prowadzone przez zespół naukowców z Polski i Ukrainy, poszerzają wiedzę o zabytkach Chełma od wczesnego średniowiecza do czasów nowożytnych. Ich celem jest nie tylko poznawanie prawdy o przeszłości, ale zbliżenie sąsiadujących narodów, w historii których znajdujemy nie tylko jasne karty historii. Wyniki badań...
Routledge, 2006. — 604 p. This book offers an overview of the archaeological and structural evidence for one of the most vital periods of Italian history, spanning the late Roman and early medieval periods. The chronological scope covers the adoption of Christianity and the emergence of Rome as the seat of Western Christendom, the break-up of the Roman west in the face of...
Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1984. — 402 S. — (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Denkschriften 170. Band; Studien zur Archäologie der Awaren I). — ISBN: 3-7001-0626-2. Die Erschließung des awarischen Gräberfeldes von Sommerein am Leithagebirge gehört zu den traurigsten Kapiteln der österreichischen...
Wien: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987. — 470 S. — (Studien zur Archäologie der Awaren 3 = Veröffentlichung der Kommission für Frühmittelalterforschung 10 =Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, Band: 194). — ISBN: 3-7001-1201-7. Der awarische Friedhof von Leobersdorf konnte vom Autor zwischen 1977 und 1983 ausgegraben werden.
Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2001. — 160 p. Pottery is an especially common find on archaeological sites, and the study of pottery offers a key to understanding the archaeology of the Byzantine Empire. Ceramics provide invaluable information on dating, technology, everyday life, trade, artistic styles and intercultural contacts. Byzantine pottery is also visually very attractive....
Catalogs for Gotland "Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands" by Lena Thunmark-Nylen. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien : distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, c1995-2006. Description 4 v. in 7 : ill., maps ; 31 cm. v. 1. Abbildungen der Grabfunde -- v. 2. Typentafeln -- v. 3. Text (2 v.) -- v. 4. Katalog (3 v.). Subject(s): Gotland...
Medieval finds from excavations in London 3. London: HMSO, 1991 – xi + 410 p., 12 colour, 62 b/w., 207 line ill. – ISBN: 0-11-290444-0 Brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories were part of everyday dress in the middle ages. Over two thousand such items dating from the period 1150-1450 are described and discussed here, all found in recent...
Bristol Classical Press, 2003. — 160 p. Villa to Village challenges the historical view that hilltop villages in Italy were first founded in the tenth century. Drawing upon recent excavations, the authors show that the makings of the medieval village lie in the demise of the Roman villa in late antiquity. The book describes the lively debate between archaeologists and...
Kazan: Glavdesign Ltd., 2015. — 404 p. — (A Tartarica Series Atlas). — ISBN: 978-5-9905-7164-8. The book “Great Bolgar” compiled by the Republican Foundation for Revival of Historic and Cultural Monuments of the Tatarstan Republic and the Shigabuddin Marjani Institute of History under the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences presents to wide audience the centuries of history and...
Routledge, 2019. — 400 p. — (Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World). It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance, regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 225 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). — ISBN 0–19–924697–1. The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did villages and...
In Drei Bänden. 1 Band - systematische Erläuterung; 2 Band - Fundbeschreibung mit vielen Abbildungen; 3 Band - Atlas enthaltend. — Braunschweig: Druck und verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1905. — 853 S. mit 2359 Abb. und 2 Taf. + 1006 S. + 539 Taf. Vorliegende Arbeit ist das Ergebniss von Studien über die Denkmäler des frühen Mittelalters in Ungarn, welche der Verfasser...
Routledge, 2011. — 320 p. Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 392 p. The vast transformation of the Roman world at the end of antiquity has been a subject of broad scholarly interest for decades, but until now no book has focused specifically on the Iberian Peninsula in the period as seen through an archaeological lens. Given the sparse documentary evidence available, archaeology holds the key to a...
Oxford: John and Erica Hedges, 2007. — 164 p. — (BAR. International Series S1721; Archaeological studies on late antiquity and early medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.). Monographs III). Les Apsiles et leurs voisins d'après les sources écrites des Ier-VIIe siècles (Michel Kazanski et Anna Mastykova). La civilisation de Tsebelda (Michel Kazanski et Anna Mastykova). L'’évolution de...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the wide scale...
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1995. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0870997297 / ISBN13: 978-0870997297. The city of Nishapur, located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance in medieval times and a flourishing center of art, crafts, and trade. Excavated by the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum in 1935–40 and again in 1947, the site yielded a wealth of...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 208 p. In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term and long-term consequences for society, have...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 208 p. In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term and long-term consequences for society, have...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 288 p. This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source material consists of five object categories: gold foils, gold bracteates, helmet plaques, jewellery, and...
The Society for Medieval Archaeology in Finland, 2015. — 462 p. — (Archaeologia Medii Aevi Finlandiae, Book 21). Marks of Fire, Value and Faith explores swords with ferrous inlays found in Finland and dating from the late Iron Age, ca. 700-1200 AD. These swords reflect profound changes not only in styles and fashion but in the technology of hilts and blades. This study explores...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 480 p. This book accounts for the tumultuous period of the fifth to eleventh centuries from the Fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire through the breakup of the Eastern Roman Empire and loss of pan-Mediterranean rule, until the Turks arrived and seized Anatolia. The volume is divided into a dozen syntheses that each addresses...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 545 p. — (BAR International Series 2604). This monograph concentrates on early Irish medieval dwellings and settlements, AD 400-1100, and is directly based on a report compiled and written in the main throughout 2009 and 2010, largely based on the evidence available up to that time. Drawing on both published and unpublished material, it sets out an...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 385 p. In The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th – 14th centuries) Silviu Oţa highlights the interactions between different ethnic groups as reflected in burial customs and funerary practices. The book will deal with the Banat as a whole (as opposed to the Romanian, Serbian or Hungarian parts of the region) since the modern...
All'Insegna del Giglio, 2005. — 371 p. In Italian. Catalog of finds made during archaeological investigations of early medieval necropolis of Castel Trosino.
Digest of articles. Riga 2006. 207 p. Krajuma ievietoto rakstu autori Jänis Stradins Selija kä Latvijas savdabigs kultürvesturisks regions Maris Atgazis. Selpils Spietipu apmetne un täs laiks Janis Ciglis. Selu etnogeneze Austrumbaltijas etnokultürvesturisko procesu kontekstä Mykolas Michelbertas. The funeral rite of the villages according to research burial mounds of...
Digest of articles. Riga 2004. 206 p. Krajumā ievietoto rakstu autori Prieksvards Raso Banytė-Rowell. The Transition of Ideas and Northern Lithuania in the Roman Period Janis Ciglis. Zemgaļi Vidzeme? Santa Dobele. Ar monētām datēto 14. gs. - 15. gs. sākuma sieviešu apbedījumu senlietas Dobeles kapsetā Romas Jarockis. Settlement Development in the River Lielupe Basin c. 500-1200...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 274 p. As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition, residential and representational purposes. Growing affluence and an international orientation provided a wide range of development potential....
Routledge, 2013. — 449 p. "The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade" explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which lasted into the 16th century. It provides the first synthesis of the material culture of a unique crusading society created in the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 269 p. The Croatian medieval archaeological heritage from the 8th to the 15th century consists mostly of jewelry (earrings) findings from cemeteries. This book uses vertical and horizontal stratigraphy, on the basis of around 20,000 burial assemblages from 16 cemeteries (out of several hundred so far excavated in Croatia), to establish...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Textbooks, reference works, and written sources Textbooks and reference works Written sources Anthologies and series Non-Scandinavian sources West Norse prose historiography Old Norse verse East Norse historiography Documentary sources Other disciplines Political and social history Scandinavia Denmark Norway Sweden The Viking expansion Iceland...
This book is published as a part of the project The Artistic Culture of Central Asia and Azerbaijan in the 9th–15th centuries, carried out by the International Institute for Central Asian Studies. The objective of the project is to systematise the academic knowledge and data related to a wide range of items of the material and artistic culture of the 9th–15th centuries,...
University of Tartu Press, 2012. — 384 p. This book analyses the society, economy, settlement, and culture of the territory of present-day Estonia in the period of ca AD 450–1050. This period is known in the Estonian archaeological chronology as the Migration Period, the Pre-Viking Age, and the Viking Age. This was an era of rapid change, by the end of which traditional...
Leiden University Press, 2013. — 423 p. What did everyday domestic life in towns and villages in the Cyclades in medieval and post-medieval Greece look like? Using primary archaeological data gathered by the Cyclades Research Project, the author identifies, amongst other things, settlement layout - which included fortified settlements and undefended nucleated villages; domestic...
Oxford: John and Erica Hedges, 2007. — 334 p. — (BAR. International Series S1721; Archaeological studies on late antiquity and early medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.). Monographs II). La disparition tragique de Youri Voronov durant la guerre fratricide abkhazo-géorgienne ne lui a pas permis d'achever son oeuvre, dont la traduction en français et la publication étaient prévues...
An introduction and field guide. — Parnassus press, Bijleveld, 2005. — 223 p. Byzantine to modern pottery in the Aegean is the first general introduction and easy-to-use field guide for Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery in this part of the Mediterranean. It encompasses 76 wares most commonly found during excavations, surveys and in museums, dating from the 7 th century until...
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