Uncovering the Germanic Past
Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830--1914
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 June 2012
- ISBN 9780199696710
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages452 pages
- Size 222x149x30 mm
- Weight 764 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 80 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.
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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.
consummate skill and professionalism ... exquisite detail ... a very welcome addition to a growing literature that traces the story and importance of the modern interest in the medieval.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
Part One. Archaeological Research in Nineteenth--Century France
Centralizing Archaeological Research in Nineteenth--Century France
Learned Societies and Archaeological Research in France
Part Two. The Politics of Merovingian Archaeology
Developing Approaches to Merovingian Archaeology
The Politics of Merovingian--Period Finds
Institutionalizing the Amateur s Craft
Archaeological Museums, Merovingian Antiquities, and their Audiences
Public Reception of Merovingian-Period Finds
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Evolution and Genetics in Life Histories
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