The Migration Period Between the Oder and the Vistula (2 Vols)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42240-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 1052 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1973 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

This collection of studies is the result of a six-year interdisciplinary research project undertaken by an international team of archaeologists, historians, numismatists and paleobotanists. It constitutes a completely new approach to environmental, cultural and settlement changes during the Migration Period in Central Europe.

Part One discusses written sources, theories regarding migration, and environmental change in the first millennium AD. In Part Two, archaeological sources relating to Central Europe in the Migration Period are analysed, while Part Three is devoted to new discoveries between the Oder and the Vistula, including traces of Germanic settlement in northern Poland in the early seventh century. In Part Four, evidence for cultural and settlement changes in neighbouring areas is characterized in a comparative light.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bursche, Aleksander

Hines, John

Zapolska, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Maps, Diagrams and Tables

Introduction

Aleksander Bursche

Part 1: History, Theory and Environment

1 Migration Studies in Archaeology: Building a Circumstantial Case

Marzena J. Przybyla

2 Migration and Identity in Late Antiquity

Peter Heather

3 The Migration Period in Poland in the Light of Literary Sources

Marcin Woloszyn

4 Pollen Evidence of Change in Environment and Settlement during the 1st Millennium AD

Anna Pedziszewska, Malgorzata Latalowa, Joanna Swieta-Musznicka, Marcelina Zimny, Miroslawa Kupryjanowicz, Agnieszka Noryskiewicz and Karolina Bloom

Part 2: Between the Oder and the Vistula

5 The Chronology

Magdalena Maczynska

6 Styles

Anna Bitner-Wróblewska, Alexandra Pesch and Marzena J. Przybyla

7 Settlements

Henryk Machajewski

8 Cemeteries and Burials

Henryk Machajewski and Jan Schuster

9 Early Migration Period Nomadic Finds

Judyta Rodzinska-Nowak

10 Shared Divine Imagery: Gold Bracteates

Alexandra Pesch

11 The Southern Baltic Region

Magdalena Maczynska

12 Southern and Central Poland

Magdalena Maczynska

Part 3: Case Studies

13 Kujawy (Central Poland) between Antiquity and Middle Ages

Marcin Rudnicki and Miroslaw Rudnicki

14 Roman Origin and Migration Period Military Equipment from Kujawy

Bartosz Kontny and Marcin Rudnicki

15 The Hoard from Lubiana in Pomerania

Magdalena Maczynska

16 The Hoard of Solidi from Karsibór in Western Pomerania

Anna Zapolska

17 The Gold Hoard from Suchan in Western Pomerania and Its Context

Aleksander Bursche and Bartlomiej Rogalski

18 New Evidence for the Migration Period in the Central Prosna Basin

Slawomir Milek

Part 4: Beyond the Oder and the Vistula

19 Southern Scandinavia in the Migration Period – an Overview

Andreas Rau

20 The Making of the Vidivarii: Germanic and Baltic Interculturation in the Late 5th Century

Bartosz Kontny

21 The Balt Neighbours – the Olsztyn Group

Anna Bitner Wróblewska

22 Migration-Period Culture and Changes in the East European Forest-Steppe Zone

Michail Lyubichev and Kyrylo Myzgin

23 Who Were the Gepids and Ostrogoths on the Middle Danube in the 5th Century? An Archaeological Perspective

Zsófia Rácz

24 Between the Rhine, the Danube and the Oder from the 5th to the End of the 7th Century: a Sketch

Michael Schmauder and Jan Schuster

25 East Germanic and Alano-Sarmatian Finds of the Early Migration Period in the Roman West

Michel Kazanski

26 The Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula: an Outline

Aleksander Bursche, Malgorzata Latalowa and Magdalena Maczynska

Afterword

Aleksander Bursche and Magdalena Maczynska

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Aleksander Bursche coordinated the Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula project, the results of which are published here. He is a full professor at the University of Warsaw, specialising in relations between the Classical World and the Barbarians.


Prof. John Hines is Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religious Studies, Cardiff University. He has published extensively on material and literary culture and linguistic history in northern Europe from the Late Iron Age to the Modern Period.


Dr. Anna Zapolska is a researcher in the Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw University. She specialises in numismatics, coin finds, and coins in archaeological contexts. She is currently working on the bronze coin finds from sites of the West Balt Cultures.