Digital Humanities and Religious and Social Archaeology of Medieval Central Eastern Europe: New Trends and Approaches

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 2: Crossing Boundaries, Materialities, and Identities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The present paper introduces the ERC project RELIC and its sister WEAVE project REPLICO, modeling how the general population was involved in significant historical processes such as Christianization and state formation, by conducting a complex, comparative analysis and contextualization of archaeological and historical remains of the rural population living on the eastern fringes of the HRE during the Ottonian and Salian periods (tenth–twelfth centuries), exploring the influences of centers and networks of secular and ecclesiastical lords, of the natural environment, and of the economic infrastructure. Investigating this often-overlooked segment of the population, its hitherto unexplored or neglected role allows us to study how (top-level) changes in political and ecclesiastical organizations can be reflected in the evidence concerning the lower levels of society and of the local church network; how different strategies worked in different political settings, and what role local initiatives/agencies could have played in religious and political shifts.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 2: Crossing Boundaries, Materialities, and Identities   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38726.0