Religion, Cults & Rituals in the Medieval Rural Environment

Specialized in medieval and post-medieval archaeology, Christiane Bis-Worch (1966) is curator of the department for medieval and post-medieval archaeology at the Centre national de recherché archéologique (CNRA) since 2004. Her missions include, among others, the archaeological investigations on site and the dispatching of the obtained scientific results in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. She is supporting and supervising scientific research done by students (Bachelor, Master, PhD and post-PhD) in close cooperation with universities. Beside the research on a national and international level, the CNRA sensitizes the public by publishing books, articles and brochures, by organizing conferences and by preparing permanent and temporary exhibitions at the Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art (MNHA). Prof. Claudia Theune is Professor for Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna with a special/great/deep interest in contemporary archaeology. She studied Prehistoric and early medieval Archaeology, social Anthropology, Christian Archaeology and geology at the Universities in Marburg and Bonn, Germany (1979-1988). She worked as a scientific researcher at the University of Marburg. In 1994 she became Assistant Professor at the Department of Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology at the Humboldt-University, Berlin. Since 2007 she was appointed Full Professor for Medieval and Historical Archaeology at the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna.

Foreword – Vorwort – Avant-Propos

Claudia Theune

Einleitung zum Tagungsband.

Christiane Bis-Worch

 

Past and Present meet: Contemporary expressions of faith along the Camino Frances. Observations by a modern pilgrim.

Bert Groenewoudt

 

Court-yard sites and their cultic context.

Frode Iversen

 

Anomaly or myth? Sami circular offering sites in medieval northern Norway.

Marte Spangen

 

Livs’ Offering Cave (Latvia): new discoveries.

Juris Urtāns

 

Les gravures de « la Table des Bergers ».

Frédéric Surmély

 

Struell : Bathing at midsummer and the origins of holy wells.

Finbar McCormick

 

Medieval Hermit Caves and Rock-Cut Hermitages in Great Britain.

James Bond

 

Klostergründungen – in mystischen Wäldern oder an urbaren Feldern?

Miriam Steinborn

 

Privately Founded Benedictine Monasteries in Medieval Hungary – a case study: Pétermonostora, the monastery and a settlement without written history.

Edit Sárosi – Szabolcs Rosta

 

The byzantine settlement of Shivta in the Negev desert and its churches: An analysis of their spatial arrangement within the settlement and its social implications.

Constanze Röhl

 

Réflexions topologiques sur les églises antérieures à 1050 dans l’ancien diocèse de Tongres-Maastricht-Liège.

Philippe Mignot – Frédéric Chantinne

 

Le site de Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois (Indre-et-Loire, France) : un nouvel exemple d’édifice religieux/funéraire alto-médiéval en contexte d’habitat rural.

Cyrille Ben Kaddour

 

Le phénomène de pierres antiques incorporées dans des édifices chrétiens au Grand-Duché du Luxembourg – état de recherche et nouvelles questions.

Estelle Michels

 

Rural mosques and settlements: some reflections from the Archaeology of al-Andalus (11th-13th centuries).

Jorge A. Eiroa

 

Landjudentum im nordbayerischen Franken. Geschichte und Archäologie.

Hans-Peter Süss

 

Priest houses in rural settlements of Medieval Hungary.

Tibor Ákos Rácz

 

Sépultures des marges et sépultures marginales : sur quelques exemples médiévaux de la moitié sud de la France.

Yves Gleize

 

Rock-cut graves and cemeteries in the medieval rural landscape of the Viseu region (central Portugal).

Catarina Tente

 

A Place for the Ancestors: Early Medieval Burial Sites in the Central Area of the Iberian Peninsula.

Iñaki Martín Viso

 

Mortuary archaeology and variation in death culture in eastern North-Brabant (the Netherlands), c. 900-1900 AD.

Nico Arts

 

The identity of the community and the identity of the individual: the burial of the deceased within the settlement in the Middle Ages in Northern Croatia.

Siniša Krznar – Tatjana Tkalčec

 

A Village is pushed aside – The Pilgrimage with Stillborns to the Holy Shrine of the Virgin Mary in Oberbüren (Canton of Berne, Switzerland).

Daniel Gutscher

 

‘Deviant’ Burials in Rural Environment in the High Middle Ages – Ritual, the lack of ritual, or just another kind of it?

Mária Vargha

 

Der würdige und der unwürdige Tod im schlesischen Dorf des 13. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.

Paweł Duma

 

The investigation of traces of religious cults and practices in the medieval rural archaeology of Hungary.

Miklós Takács

 

Lay devotion in rural and urban contexts in Medieval Sweden.

Elisabet Regner

 

Brabantian fields, blessed land – A study about the origins of artefacts found in arable land.

J.P.W. (Johan) Verspay

 

“Building sacrifices“ and magical protection. A study at canton of Grisons (CH).

Iris Nießen

 

Building offerings from rural farms – folk beliefs with deeper roots.

Morten Søvsø

 

Archéologie des pratiques apotropaïques entre Lorraine et Luxembourg.

Jean-Marie Blaising

 

Zauberbohrungen, magische Zeichen und „Hexenbriefe“ – Spuren von Alltagsmagie in Bauernhäusern aus Nordwestdeutschland.

Heinrich Stiewe

 

Magical dwelling: apotropaic building practices in the New World Dutch cultural hearth.

Walter Richard Wheeler