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Social strcture of early mediaeval cemeteries - MB110P72
Title: Sociální struktura raně středověkých pohřebišť
Czech title: Sociální struktura raně středověkých pohřebišť
Guaranteed by: Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics (31-110)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2017
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Lumír Poláček, CSc.
Annotation -
Last update: VACKOVA (03.05.2005)
The aim of these lectures is to make students aquatinted with the evidence of archaeological sources to the social structure of historical populations. In the centre of attention are burial places and graves. Their understanding gives us the most complete picture of the social structure. After opening lessons, aimed on methodic and problems in general we intent on the survey of burial evolution from the first historically known civilizations - the Celtics, Germans, partly even Romans. Early mediaeval cemeteries with their beginnings in the 6th century are introduced both in chronological and geographical order, including Merovingian's and Carolingian's cemetery as well as graves from Viking region. In the centre of our attention is central-east Europe with Great Moravia as the first state formation of Slavs. Special excurse is devoted to the problematic of "dukes" or let us say dynastic graves from protohistoric and early mediaeval period.

Literature - Czech
Last update: VACKOVA (05.05.2005)

Donié, S.: Soziale Gliederung und Bevölkerungsentwicklung einer frühmittelalterlichen Siedlungsgemeinschaft. Untersuchungen zum Gräberfeld bei Schretzheim. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Bonn 1999.

Sasse, B.: Die Sozialstruktur Böhmens in der Frühzeit. Historisch-archäologische Untersuchungen zum 9.-12. Jahrhundert. Berliner historische Studien 7 IV. Berlin 1982.

Stein, G.: Adelsgräber des achten Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Germ. Denkmäler Völkerwanderungszeit A 9. Berlin 1967.

Steuer, H.: Frühgeschichtliche Sozialstrukturen in Mitteleuropa. Eine Analyse der Auswertungsmethoden des archäologischen Quellenmaterials. Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen, philol.-hist. K1. 3. F128. Göttingen 1982.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Sedlak, Ph.D. (24.04.2012)

Zkouška ústní formou v rozsahu přednášek a doporučené literatury.

Syllabus -
Last update: VACKOVA (03.05.2005)

1. What the term social structure means - basic terms and methods, social-historic interpretation of archaeological sources, significance of written sources.

2. Graves and burial places and their significance for understanding of social structure of inhabitants - signs, methods a their testimonial possibility

3. Social structure of protohistorical burial places (Latten, Roman and migration of nations period, early Slavonic period)

4. Early mediaeval cemeteries in Western Europe: Frankish Empire

5. Early mediaeval cemeteries in Northern Europe: Viking region

6. Early mediaeval cemeteries in the Central-Eastern Europe: Bohemia

7. Early mediaeval cemeteries in the Central-Eastern Europe: Moravia

8. Early mediaeval cemeteries in the Central-Eastern Europe: Slovakia, Hungary, Austria

9. Slavonic-Avarian cemeteries of the 7-8th century

10. Great Moravian's cemeteries in the 9th century

11. Social-historical interpretation of anthropological data

12. "Dukes graves"

 
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