Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Thomas F. X. Noble and Thomas Head. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xliv + 383 pp. $50.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

1995 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-649
Author(s):  
Craig L. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Early Middle Ages

The Fate of Small Towns, Hilltop Settlements, and Elite Residences in Merovingian-Period Gaul

2020 ◽  
pp. 610-640
Author(s):  
Luc Bourgeois
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Many

The study of places of power in the Merovingian realm has long been focused on cities, monasteries, and royal palaces. Recent archaeological research has led to the emergence of other categories. Four of them are addressed in this chapter. These include the capitals of fallen cities, which continue to mark the landscape in one way or another. Similarly, the fate of small Roman towns during the early Middle Ages shows that most of them continued to host a variety of secular and ecclesiastical powers. In addition, from the fourth century onward, large hilltop fortified settlements multiplied anew. They complemented earlier networks of authority, whether elite residences, artisan communities, or real towns. Finally, from the seventh century onward, the great aristocratic villas of late antiquity were transformed into settlements organized around one or more courtyards and supplemented by funerary and religious structures. The evolution of political spaces and lifestyles explains both the ruptures in power networks that occurred during the Merovingian epoch and the many continuities that can be seen in the four kinds of places studied in this chapter that were marked by these developments.

COLLECTION OF IRON TOOLS FROM THE BURIALS OF ROURAN PERIOD OF THE CHOBURAK-I COMPLEX (NORTHERN ALTAI)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 287-295
Author(s):  
Seregin N. ◽  
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Tishkin A. ◽  
Matrenin S. ◽  
Parshikova T. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
State University ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Cattle Breeders ◽  
Functional Purpose

The article presents a collection of iron tools from the burials of the Rouran period, studied at the Choburak-I funeral complex. The published materials come from eleven undisturbed burials excavated by the expedition of the Altai State University. The article provides information about twelve knives, four awls, and products with an unidentified functional purpose. The authors provided information on the peculiarities of the location of these items in the graves, made a morphological description of the recorded specimens, compared them with already known items from other sites of the Bulan-Koby archaeological culture of Altai, and from complexes excavated in adjacent territories. It was established that the analyzed objects had a rather long period of existence within the framework of the Xianbei-Rouran period (2nd - 5th centuries AD). The published materials expand the source base for studying the life support system of the Altai population at the turn of the late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The presented findings actualize the continuation of research in the field of a comprehensive analysis of tools and household items of cattle breeders in the region in the indicated period. Keywords: altai, Bulan-Koby culture, tools, knife, Awl, chronology

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