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Viking Mortuary Citations

La citation dans les pratiques funéraires des Vikings

Die Zitierung in den Grabsitten der Wikinger

Pages 400-414 | Received 04 Aug 2015, Accepted 04 May 2016, Published online: 06 Jul 2016
 

Abstract

Introducing the European Journal of Archaeology's special issue ‘Mortuary Citations: Death and Memory in the Viking World’, this article outlines the justification and theoretical framework underpinning a new set of studies on Viking-age mortuary and commemorative practice as strategies of mortuary citation. The contributions to the collection are reviewed in relation to strengths and weaknesses in existing research and broader themes in mortuary archaeological research into memory work in past societies.

En guise d'introduction à ce numéro spécial « Citations funéraires : la mort et la mémoire dans le monde viking », cet article expose les critères de justification et le cadre théorique sur lequel repose une nouvelle série d’études sur les pratiques funéraires et commémoratives de l’époque viking utilisant des stratégies de citation funéraire. Pour chaque contribution les points forts et les points faibles de la recherche en cours sont passées en revue ; on abordera aussi des thèmes plus amples dans la recherche archéologique sur les pratiques funéraires, en particulier par rapport aux études sur la mémoire dans les sociétés du passé. Translation by Madeleine Hummler

Als Einleitung zu dieser Sondernummer über das Thema „Totenzitierung: Tod und Erinnerung in der Welt der Wikinger” werden hier der Zweck und die theoretischen Grundlagen einer neuen Reihe von Untersuchungen über wikingerzeitliche Grabsitten und Gedenkensvorgänge als Zitierungsweise kurz dargestellt. Bei jedem Aufsatz werden die Stärken und Schwächen der gegenwärtigen Forschung ausgewertet und breitere Themen der Archäologie der Grabsitten, vor allem ihren Beitrag zur Erforschung der Erinnerung in früheren Gesellschaften, werden auch behandelt. Translation by Madeleine Hummler

Acknowledgements

This special issue would not have been possible without research funding from the Department of History and Archaeology and, University of Chester. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n. 284085. In addition to my thanks to all authors for agreeing to contribute, I would like to thank my Pilsen and Stockholm session co-organizer Dr Nanouschka Myrberg Burström who initiated the idea of the conference themes. This article has benefited from invaluable comments by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson and Marianne Hem Eriksen.

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Notes on contributors

Howard Williams

Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester. His research interests focus on medieval, post-medieval, and contemporary mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory public archaeology and the history of archaeology.

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