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The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century - An Ethnographic Perspective (Hardcover)
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The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century - An Ethnographic Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology
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The Continental Saxons developed from a subsistence economy,
practiced up to the Carolingian conquest in the late eighth
century, to become rulers of the Holy Roman Empire a little over a
century and a half later. A historian introduces the topic,
evaluating the reliability of the sources. Archaeologists then
describe the living conditions, especially along the coast where
villages have been excavated, and social customs revealed by
grave-goods. Legal procedures are inferred from surviving evidence,
and the regional economy, based on agriculture and animal
husbandry, is reconstructed through the study of vegetable remains
and pollen analysis. The birth of urban communities, stimulated by
monastic settlements and trade, is followed through archaeological
evidence; study of visual art-forms is based on analysis of
grave-goods; and in the absence of surviving evidence for poetry, a
Carolingian eulogical poem is discussed. Also discussed are Saxon
political relations prior to and during the Carolingian conquest;
the few signs of traditional religion that can be gleaned from the
'Lives' of missionaries; and Christianity and the activity of
religious orders, which eventually brought about the conversion of
the Saxons and the introduction of written culture.
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