Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe, AD 500–1500
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Caves and rockshelters in Europe have traditionally been associated with prehistory, and in some regions cave archaeology has become synonymous with the Palaeolithic. However, there is abundant evidence that caves and rockshelters were important foci for activities in historic times. During the medieval period (here taken as AD 500–1500) caves were used for short-term shelter, habitation, specialised craft activities, storage, as hideaways and for tending animals. Caves were also used for religious purposes. Caves and ritual in medieval Europe, AD 500–1500 focuses on this neglected field of research – the ritual and religious use of caves. It draws together interdisciplinary studies by leading specialists from across Europe: from Iberia to Crimea, and from Malta to northern Norway. The different religions and rituals in this vast area are unified by the use of caves and rockshelters, indicating that the beliefs in these natural places – and in the power of the underworld – were deeply embedded in many different religious practices. Christianity was widespread and firmly established in most of Europe at this time, and many of the contributions deal with different types of Christian practices, such as the use of rock-cut churches, unmodified caves for spiritual retreat, caves reputedly visited by saints, and caves as places for burials. But parallel to this, some caves were associated with localised popular religious practices, which sometimes had pre-Christian origins. Muslims in Iberia used caves for spiritual retreat, and outside the Christian domain in northern Europe, caves and rockshelters were places for carving symbols among Pictish groups, places for human burial, for bear burials amongst the Sámi, and places for crafting and votive deposition for Norse populations.

Table of Contents:
List of contributors Preface   Chapter 1: Caves in medieval Europe: religious and secular use Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Marion Dowd     NORTHWESTERN EUROPE   Chapter 2:  Entering other realms: Sámi burials in natural rock cavities and caves in northern Fenno-Scandinavia between 900 ­BC and AD 1700 Asgeir Svestad   Chapter 3: The use and perception of caves and rockshelters in late Iron Age and medieval Western Norway c. AD 550-1550 Knut Andreas Bergsvik   Chapter 4: A holy cave and womb: the sanctuary on the island of Selja and the birth of the first Norwegian saints Alf Tore Hommedal   Chapter 5:  Signs from the Pictish underground: early medieval cave ritual at the Sculptor’s Cave, northeast Scotland (c. AD 400-900) Lindsey Büster and Ian Armit   Chapter 6: Marking caves in Scotland and Iceland: characterising an early medieval phenomenon Kristján Ahronson   Chapter 7: Saintly associations with caves in early medieval Ireland (AD 400-1169) Marion Dowd     IBERIA AND THE MEDITTERANEAN   Chapter 8: Hidden in the depths, far from people. Funerary activities in the Lower Gallery of La Garma and the use of natural caves as burial places in early medieval Cantabria, northern Spain Pablo Arias, Roberto Ontañón, Enrique Gutiérrez Cuenca, José Ángel Hierro Gárate, Francisco Etxeberria, Lourdes Herrasti and Paloma Uzquiano   Chapter 9: Christian and Muslim patterns of secular and religious cave use in the Iberian Peninsula in Late Antiquity and the early middle Ages (fifth/sixth to eleventh/twelfth centuries AD) Manel Feijoó   Chapter 10: The occupation and use of natural caves in the Ligurian-Piedmontese region between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (fifth to late seventh century) Paolo de Vingo   Chapter 11: The culture of rock-cut cemeteries and artificial ritual caves in Roman and Byzantine Malta Mario Buhagiar   Chapter 12: Investigating cave dwelling in medieval Malta (AD 800-1530) Keith Buhagiar   CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE   Chapter 13: The use of caves for religious purposes in early medieval Germany (AD 500-1200) Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm   Chapter 14: Knights in the dark: on the function of Polish caves in the Middle Ages Michał Wojenka   Chapter 15: Medieval cave sites in the Czech Republic Vladimír Peša   Chapter 16: Bull Rock Cave (Býčí skála), Czech Republic, and its environs in the Middle Ages Martin Golec   Chapter 17: The form and fabric of Late Antique and medieval cave use in Slovenia Agni Prijatelj   Chapter 18: The triconchial medieval cave churches of Eski-Kermen (Crimea): recent results of investigations Nicolas V. Dneprovsky


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  • ISBN-13: 9781785708329
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxbow Books
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Width: 220 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1785708325
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
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