The state of facts of robbing of a grave in early medieval German laws

Nótári, Tamás

doi:10.1556/ajur.53.2012.3.5

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“…The increasing number of studies on the topic grounded in close analysis of material evidence in recent years attests to this new interest (Aspöck, 2011;Chenal & Barrand Emam, 2014;Dobos, 2014;Klevnäs, 2013;Noterman, 2016;van Haperen, 2010;Zintl, 2020), while more source-critical approaches are also being made to the written sources (e.g. Dierkens, 2011;Guillot, 2013;Nótári, 2012).…”

Section: Merovingian Archaeology In the Twentieth Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search of an Acceptable Past: History, Archaeology, and ‘Looted’ Graves in the Construction of the Frankish Early Middle Ages

Noterman

Klevnäs

2022

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory

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The Early Middle Ages have provided material for imagining selves and groups in a wide range of contexts since the earliest beginnings of the historical and archaeological disciplines. Considerable recent research has shown how modern political conflicts and regional-national identities have crystallized in this period in particular. This essay traces ways in which early medieval remains, mainly from the richly furnished cemeteries, have been brought into play in developing scholarly and popular accounts of the history of France. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the recovery of considerable numbers of finely worked grave goods from the large rural cemeteries provided material for studying and reevaluating Merovingian-period societies, previously only glimpsed in written sources and largely out-competed as national ancestors by the popular appeal of Gaulish warriors. Yet paradoxically, another form of discovery in the same burial grounds seemed to place them back in the Dark Ages: many graves were found to have been ransacked and robbed soon after burial, making the communities of the time appear lawless and barbarous. Archaeological attitudes towards excavated early medieval graves, and in particular the many thousands of graves already reopened in antiquity, not only highlight key aspects of the development of the discipline, but also reveal ways in which the remains of the dead may be integral to processes of national identity construction.

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Section: Merovingian Archaeology In the Twentieth Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search of an Acceptable Past: History, Archaeology, and ‘Looted’ Graves in the Construction of the Frankish Early Middle Ages

Noterman

Klevnäs

2022

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory

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“…The overwhelming assumption has been that grave reopening represents a form of illicit robbery or desecration, unconnected to the original burial rite. A number of early medieval law-codes prohibit grave robbery (Nehlsen 1978;Effros 2002: 49-61;Nótári 2012). These have generally been understood to refer to the practices witnessed in row-grave cemeteries, promoting a 'common-sense' explanation that the archaeological evidence for reopening indicates theft or greed (Figure 3).…”

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confidence: 99%