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Uncovering the Germanic Past - Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,677
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Uncovering the Germanic Past - Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (Hardcover): Bonnie Effros

Uncovering the Germanic Past - Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (Hardcover)

Bonnie Effros

Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology

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Uncovering the Germanic Past brings to light an unexpected side-effect of France's nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten cemeteries. Although their original owners were unknown, research by a growing number of amateur archaeologists of the bourgeois class determined that these were the graves of Germanic 'warriors', and their work, presented in provincial learned societies across France, documented evidence for significant numbers of Franks, Burgundians, and Visigoths in late Roman Gaul. They thus challenged prevailing views in France of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry, contradicting the influential writings of Parisian historians like Augustin Thierry and Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Although some scholars drew on this material evidence to refine their understanding of the early ancestors of the French, most ignored, at their peril, inconvenient finds that challenged the centrality of the ancient Gauls as the forebears of France. Crossing the boundaries of the fields of medieval archaeology and history, nineteenth-century French history, and the history of science, Effros suggests how the slow progress and professionalization of Merovingian (or early medieval) archaeology, a sub-discipline in the larger field of national archaeology in France, was in part a consequence of the undesirable evidence it brought to light.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology
Release date: June 2012
First published: July 2012
Authors: Bonnie Effros
Dimensions: 222 x 149 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969671-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Medieval European archaeology
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
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LSN: 0-19-969671-3
Barcode: 9780199696710

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