IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1112: Magdeburg – the Meadburgh?: Archeological, Political, and Cultural Aspects of the City's Early Medieval Origins
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Kaiser-Otto-Stiftung, Magdeburg |
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| Organiser: | Ingrid Wotschke, Independent Scholar, Magdeburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ingrid Wotschke, Independent Scholar, Magdeburg |
| Paper 1112-a | Magdeburg Cathedral Square between the 5th and 9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites |
| Paper 1112-b | Magdeburg and the Middle Elbe Region before 800 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites |
| Paper 1112-c | The City's Name and Origins (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Language and Literature - Comparative |
| Abstract | The aim is to suggest the probability of an early political and cultural centre on the site of the present Cathedral and surrounding area and to propose a new explanation of the City's name. On grounds of archeological evidence from the Magdeburg Cathedral Hill and Square and from the Middle Elbe Region and with reference to comparable artefacts and other sources, the origins of the place and its name are seen in the existence of a meadburgh as centre of a pre-Carolingian kingship. |