Non-funerary sword depositions in Carolingian Europe

MACZEK, Dušan. Non-funerary sword depositions in Carolingian Europe. In Willemsen, Annemariekeand; Kik, Hanneke. Dorestad and its Networks : Communities, Contact and Conflict in Early Medieval Europe. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2021, p. 199-206. ISBN 978-94-6426-003-8.

Basic information

• Original name: Non-funerary sword depositions in Carolingian Europe
• Authors: MACZEK, Dušan (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Leiden, Dorestad and its Networks : Communities, Contact and Conflict in Early Medieval Europe, p. 199-206, 8 pp. 2021.
• Publisher: Sidestone Press

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 60102 Archaeology
• Country of publisher: Netherlands
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123943
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-94-6426-003-8
• ISSN: 2034-550X
• Keywords in English: Dorestad; archaeology; early middle ages; Vikings; Carolingian; swords; medieval towns
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This third edition, ‘Dorestad and its Networks’, coincided with the fiftieth birthday of finding the famous Dorestad brooch in July 1969, and with what would have been the hundredth birthday of prof.dr. Ina Isings, to whom a special session on early-medieval glass was dedicated. The Third Dorestad Congress brought together scholars from the North Sea area to debate Dorestad and its counterparts in Scandinavia, the British Isles and the Rhineland, as well as the material culture, urbanisation and infrastructure of the Early Middle Ages. The contributions in these proceedings are devoted to new research into the Vikings at Dorestad, assemblages of jewellery, playing pieces and weaponry from the town, recent excavations at other Carolingian sites in the Low Countries, and the use and trade of glassware and broadswords in this era. They show the political, economic and cultural networks of Dorestad, the only town to be called ‘vicus famosus’ in contemporary sources.

Links

• MUNI/A/1122/2020, interní kód MU: Name: Archeologické terénní prospekce, exkavace a dokumentace I

Investor: Masaryk University