IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 501: Claiming Europe's Barbarians: Archaeology, Anthropology and Identity from 1830 to 1930
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Bonnie Effros, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Guy Halsall, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 501-a | Anglo-Saxonism and Archaeology in 19th-Century Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Art History - General, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 501-b | Amateurs No Longer?: The Professionalization of Merovingian Archaeology in 19th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Art History - General, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 501-c | From Virchow to Kossinna: Changes in German Prehistory around 1900 (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | The development of the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology in the 19th century changed the way in which scholars and the general public viewed the early Middle Ages. These methodologies, which were shaped by an era of growing nationalism as well as prevalent Romanticism, allowed material artefacts and human remains to be included as sources for the early medieval period. These three papers, one on England, one on France, and one on Germany, will address various facets of the impact of these emerging disciplines on contemporary understanding of the Dark Ages. |