Great Moravian Central Places and their Practical Function,
Social Significance and Symbolic Meaning

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Great Moravian Central Places and their Practical Function, Social Significance and Symbolic Meaning

MACHÁČEK, Jiří

Basic information

Original name

Great Moravian Central Places and their Practical Function, Social Significance and Symbolic Meaning

Authors

MACHÁČEK, Jiří (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Mainz, Zentrale Orte und Zentrale Räume des Frühmittelalters in Süddeutschland, p. 235-248, 14 pp. 2013

Publisher

Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/13:00066342

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-88467-212-9

ISSN

Keywords in English

archeology; Great Moravia; central places; Early Middle Ages

Abstract

V originále

This paper focuses on practical function, social significance and symbolic meaning of early medieval central places from the East-Central Europe, in particular from the area of so-called Great Moravia, which was a important (pre-)state formation on the eastern periphery of the Frankish Empire. It is argued that the vast local agglomerations were not mere military forts, but very complex centres – genuine civitates or urbs of Moravian Slavs as they are mentioned in Royal Frankish Annals. Only rarely can we identify the settlements known from Carolingian written sources with specific places. Although the majority eludes localization, we assume that the place names given in the written sources refer to some of the rich archaeological sites explored by archaeologists over the last 50 years in the Czech Republic. The most important ones are Mikulčice, Staré Město and Pohansko near Břeclav.

Links

GAP405/12/0111, research and development project

Name: Mezi Velkou a přemyslovskou Moravou. Archeologie kolapsu a oživení raně středověké společnosti

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Between Great and Přemyslid Moravia. The Archaeology of the Collapse and Recovery of Early Medieval Society

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Citovat

MACHÁČEK, Jiří. Great Moravian Central Places and their Practical Function, Social Significance and Symbolic Meaning. In Ettel, Peter; Werther, Lukas. Zentrale Orte und Zentrale Räume des Frühmittelalters in Süddeutschland. Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2013, p. 235-248. ISBN 978-3-88467-212-9.

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MACHÁČEK, Jiří. Great Moravian Central Places and their Practical Function, Social Significance and Symbolic Meaning. In Ettel, Peter; Werther, Lukas. \textit{Zentrale Orte und Zentrale Räume des Frühmittelalters in Süddeutschland}. Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2013, p.~235-248. ISBN~978-3-88467-212-9.

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