Medieval jewelry and burial assemblages in Croatia : a study of graves and grave goods, ca. 800 to ca. 1450 / by Vladimir Sokol

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages volume 36
• VerfasserIn: Sokol, Vladimir 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2016]; © 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages volume 36
• Classification: 21.97 - Kunsthandwerk, Kunstgewerbe: Sonstiges; 15.18 - Mittelalterliche Archäologie. neuzeitliche Archäologie; 15.70 - Balkanstaaten
• Physical Description: IX, 258 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Pläne, Karten; 30 cm
• Notes: Enthält: Literaturverzeichnis; Part 1. Graves and material culture -- A history of research -- Cemeteries and material culture -- Cemetery stratigraphy and the classification of material culture -- Cemetery horizons and material culture phases -- The development of material culture : earrings and their evolution -- Grave architecture -- Interpretation and general remarks: Croat burial rites and belief system; Material culture and non-Christian spirituality among Croats : its duration and cessation; Stone cists : late antique or early medieval?; Burial customs; Burial horizons and churches; Cemeteries between the mountains and the River Sava -- Part 2. Earrings -- Earrings as grave goods -- Medieval earrings in Croatia -- Index personarum (Index of proper names) -- Index locorum (Index of geographical names)

"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...