Medieval élite burials in eastern Mecklenburg and Pomerania

• Autores: Felix Biermann
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 82, Nº 315, 2008, págs. 87-98
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • High status burial remains one of archaeology's most evocative types of site - but it is not always easy to know why they were built, where and when they were. The author describes a group of élite burials that appeared in north Europe in the late eleventh-twelfth century in a historical context that is unusually clear, and proposes the rise of a pagan élite in the face of aggressive Christianisation from the neighbours.