Gabor Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabor Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabor |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0311-8218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Practice, Power and Place
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in …
Halls of Mirrors
The commentators’ reflections on rulers’ residences as a manifestation of developing socio-political complexity raise some issues that require clarification. In our discussion of the temporality of
Mead-Halls of the Oiscingas
Widely cited as a metaphor for the emergence of kingship in early medieval England, the great hall complex represents one of the most distinctive and evocative expressions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement record, yet interpretation of these sites remains underdeveloped and heavily weighted towards Yeavering. Inspired by the results of recent excavations at Lyminge, this paper undertakes a detailed comparative interrogation of three great hall comple…
Religious Transformations in the Middle Ages
L'articolo esplora dal punto di vista archeologico le varie tracce materiali lasciate dalle forme cultuali proprie del Medioevo, colte nei loro aspetti di trasformazioni religiose. L'analisi riguarda contesti pagani, cristiani, islamici ed ebrei, visti attraverso una prospettiva di lungo termine. I concetti base sono quelli di ibridità, resilienza, tempi e traiettorie. Un'attenzione particolare è data al modo in cui credenze, pratiche e identità …
Martin Carver , Justin Garner-Lahire & Cecily Spall . Portmahomack on Tarbet Ness
Martin Carver , Justin Garner-Lahire & Cecily Spall . Portmahomack on Tarbet Ness: changing ideologies in north-east Scotland, sixth to sixteenth century AD. 2016. 552 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Edinburgh: Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-1-190833-209-7 hardback £30. - Volume 91 Issue 357
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World
This paper takes a fresh look at the relationship between Christian conversion and economic change in Anglo-Saxon England, drawing upon new archaeological evidence from Kent. One of its primary aims is to exploit the archaeological record to provide a critical perspective on how these two processes may have related to one another, paying particular attention to previous assumptions concerning the role played by monastic institutions in the proces…
Technology, ritual and Anglo-Saxon agriculture
Life before the Minster
Anglo-Saxon monastic archaeology has been constrained by the limited scale of past investigations and their overriding emphasis on core buildings. This paper draws upon the results of an ongoing campaign of archaeological research that is redressing the balance through an ambitious programme of open-area excavation at Lyminge, Kent, the site of a royal double monastery founded in the seventh century ad . The results of five completed fieldwork se…
The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion, by Richard Hoggett
In what represents the revival of an old orthodoxy, this book proclaims that the conversion should be isolated as the principal cause of transitions in Anglo-Saxon burial practices over the seventh to ninth centuries AD. Two of the author’s conclusions will suffice to give a flavour of the argument: ‘The extent of the rite [cremation] and the speed of its decline suggest that the conversion process was quick and widespread at a grass-roots level’…
Carolingian Culture in the North Sea World
Boosted by a proliferation in metal-detected finds, categories of personal adornment now constitute a vital archaeological source for interpreting Viking-age cultural interaction in the North Sea region. Previous research in England has explored the potential of this metalwork in relation to the formation of ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ identity, but without due consideration of a wider spectrum of cultural influences. This article redresses the balance …
The Huxley Viking Hoard
The Huxley Viking Hoard: Scandinavian Settlement in the North West. Edited by James Graham-Campbell and Robert Philpott." Archaeological Journal, 168(1), pp. 423–424
The Symbolic Lives of Late Anglo-Saxon Settlements
This paper examines the character and significance of a cellared structure discovered during recent excavations on the site of a later Anglo-Saxon settlement at Bishopstone, East Sussex. The structure in question formed a focal element within an estate centre complex administered by the Bishops of Selsey from c. AD 800, otherwise surviving in the celebrated pre-Conquest fabric of St Andrew's parish church. The excavated footprint of this cellared…
Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts
Strap-ends represent the most common class of dress accessory known from late Anglo-Saxon England. At this period, new materials, notably lead and its alloys, were being deployed in the manufacture of personal possessions and jewellery. This newly found strap-end adds to the growing number of tongue-shaped examples fashioned from lead dating from this period. It is, however, distinctive in being inscribed with a personal name. The present article…
Reflections on a '9th-century' Northumbrian Metalworking Tradition
A study devoted to a major new Late Anglo-Saxon silver hoard discovered by metal-detectorists in the environs of York. Examination of the range of objects represented leads to a reappraisal of the function of one of commonest categories of contemporary dress accessory, and adds an interesting, morphologically distinct, addition to the corpus of twenty or so silver disc-brooches to have survived from the Late Anglo-Saxon England. A structured anal…
Anglo-Scandinavian Metalwork from the Danelaw
Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts
Report on Excavations at Sedgeford, Norfolk 1996
Excavations were undertaken as part of the ongoing work of the Sedgeford Hall Archaeological Research Project, which was set up in 1995 with the aim of investigating the archaeological history of the parish of Sedgeford, west Norfolk
Life before the Minster
Anglo-Saxon monastic archaeology has been constrained by the limited scale of past investigations and their overriding emphasis on core buildings. This paper draws upon the results of an ongoing campaign of archaeological research that is redressing the balance through an ambitious programme of open-area excavation at Lyminge, Kent, the site of a royal double monastery founded in the seventh century ad . The results of five completed fieldwork se…
Carolingian Culture in the North Sea World
Boosted by a proliferation in metal-detected finds, categories of personal adornment now constitute a vital archaeological source for interpreting Viking-age cultural interaction in the North Sea region. Previous research in England has explored the potential of this metalwork in relation to the formation of ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ identity, but without due consideration of a wider spectrum of cultural influences. This article redresses the balance …
The Symbolic Lives of Late Anglo-Saxon Settlements
This paper examines the character and significance of a cellared structure discovered during recent excavations on the site of a later Anglo-Saxon settlement at Bishopstone, East Sussex. The structure in question formed a focal element within an estate centre complex administered by the Bishops of Selsey from c. AD 800, otherwise surviving in the celebrated pre-Conquest fabric of St Andrew's parish church. The excavated footprint of this cellared…
Mead-Halls of the Oiscingas
Widely cited as a metaphor for the emergence of kingship in early medieval England, the great hall complex represents one of the most distinctive and evocative expressions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement record, yet interpretation of these sites remains underdeveloped and heavily weighted towards Yeavering. Inspired by the results of recent excavations at Lyminge, this paper undertakes a detailed comparative interrogation of three great hall comple…
Religious Transformations in the Middle Ages
L'articolo esplora dal punto di vista archeologico le varie tracce materiali lasciate dalle forme cultuali proprie del Medioevo, colte nei loro aspetti di trasformazioni religiose. L'analisi riguarda contesti pagani, cristiani, islamici ed ebrei, visti attraverso una prospettiva di lungo termine. I concetti base sono quelli di ibridità, resilienza, tempi e traiettorie. Un'attenzione particolare è data al modo in cui credenze, pratiche e identità …
Technology, ritual and Anglo-Saxon agriculture
Practice, Power and Place
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in …
Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts
Strap-ends represent the most common class of dress accessory known from late Anglo-Saxon England. At this period, new materials, notably lead and its alloys, were being deployed in the manufacture of personal possessions and jewellery. This newly found strap-end adds to the growing number of tongue-shaped examples fashioned from lead dating from this period. It is, however, distinctive in being inscribed with a personal name. The present article…
Reflections on a '9th-century' Northumbrian Metalworking Tradition
A study devoted to a major new Late Anglo-Saxon silver hoard discovered by metal-detectorists in the environs of York. Examination of the range of objects represented leads to a reappraisal of the function of one of commonest categories of contemporary dress accessory, and adds an interesting, morphologically distinct, addition to the corpus of twenty or so silver disc-brooches to have survived from the Late Anglo-Saxon England. A structured anal…
Halls of Mirrors
The commentators’ reflections on rulers’ residences as a manifestation of developing socio-political complexity raise some issues that require clarification. In our discussion of the temporality of
Report on Excavations at Sedgeford, Norfolk 1996
Excavations were undertaken as part of the ongoing work of the Sedgeford Hall Archaeological Research Project, which was set up in 1995 with the aim of investigating the archaeological history of the parish of Sedgeford, west Norfolk
Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts
Anglo-Scandinavian Metalwork from the Danelaw
Reflections on a '9th-century' Northumbrian Metalworking Tradition
A study devoted to a major new Late Anglo-Saxon silver hoard discovered by metal-detectorists in the environs of York. Examination of the range of objects represented leads to a reappraisal of the function of one of commonest categories of contemporary dress accessory, and adds an interesting, morphologically distinct, addition to the corpus of twenty or so silver disc-brooches to have survived from the Late Anglo-Saxon England. A structured anal…
The Symbolic Lives of Late Anglo-Saxon Settlements
This paper examines the character and significance of a cellared structure discovered during recent excavations on the site of a later Anglo-Saxon settlement at Bishopstone, East Sussex. The structure in question formed a focal element within an estate centre complex administered by the Bishops of Selsey from c. AD 800, otherwise surviving in the celebrated pre-Conquest fabric of St Andrew's parish church. The excavated footprint of this cellared…
Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts
Strap-ends represent the most common class of dress accessory known from late Anglo-Saxon England. At this period, new materials, notably lead and its alloys, were being deployed in the manufacture of personal possessions and jewellery. This newly found strap-end adds to the growing number of tongue-shaped examples fashioned from lead dating from this period. It is, however, distinctive in being inscribed with a personal name. The present article…
The Huxley Viking Hoard
The Huxley Viking Hoard: Scandinavian Settlement in the North West. Edited by James Graham-Campbell and Robert Philpott." Archaeological Journal, 168(1), pp. 423–424
The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion, by Richard Hoggett
In what represents the revival of an old orthodoxy, this book proclaims that the conversion should be isolated as the principal cause of transitions in Anglo-Saxon burial practices over the seventh to ninth centuries AD. Two of the author’s conclusions will suffice to give a flavour of the argument: ‘The extent of the rite [cremation] and the speed of its decline suggest that the conversion process was quick and widespread at a grass-roots level’…
Carolingian Culture in the North Sea World
Boosted by a proliferation in metal-detected finds, categories of personal adornment now constitute a vital archaeological source for interpreting Viking-age cultural interaction in the North Sea region. Previous research in England has explored the potential of this metalwork in relation to the formation of ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ identity, but without due consideration of a wider spectrum of cultural influences. This article redresses the balance …
Life before the Minster
Anglo-Saxon monastic archaeology has been constrained by the limited scale of past investigations and their overriding emphasis on core buildings. This paper draws upon the results of an ongoing campaign of archaeological research that is redressing the balance through an ambitious programme of open-area excavation at Lyminge, Kent, the site of a royal double monastery founded in the seventh century ad . The results of five completed fieldwork se…
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World
This paper takes a fresh look at the relationship between Christian conversion and economic change in Anglo-Saxon England, drawing upon new archaeological evidence from Kent. One of its primary aims is to exploit the archaeological record to provide a critical perspective on how these two processes may have related to one another, paying particular attention to previous assumptions concerning the role played by monastic institutions in the proces…
Technology, ritual and Anglo-Saxon agriculture
Religious Transformations in the Middle Ages
L'articolo esplora dal punto di vista archeologico le varie tracce materiali lasciate dalle forme cultuali proprie del Medioevo, colte nei loro aspetti di trasformazioni religiose. L'analisi riguarda contesti pagani, cristiani, islamici ed ebrei, visti attraverso una prospettiva di lungo termine. I concetti base sono quelli di ibridità, resilienza, tempi e traiettorie. Un'attenzione particolare è data al modo in cui credenze, pratiche e identità …
Martin Carver , Justin Garner-Lahire & Cecily Spall . Portmahomack on Tarbet Ness
Martin Carver , Justin Garner-Lahire & Cecily Spall . Portmahomack on Tarbet Ness: changing ideologies in north-east Scotland, sixth to sixteenth century AD. 2016. 552 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Edinburgh: Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-1-190833-209-7 hardback £30. - Volume 91 Issue 357
Mead-Halls of the Oiscingas
Widely cited as a metaphor for the emergence of kingship in early medieval England, the great hall complex represents one of the most distinctive and evocative expressions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement record, yet interpretation of these sites remains underdeveloped and heavily weighted towards Yeavering. Inspired by the results of recent excavations at Lyminge, this paper undertakes a detailed comparative interrogation of three great hall comple…
Practice, Power and Place
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in …
Halls of Mirrors
The commentators’ reflections on rulers’ residences as a manifestation of developing socio-political complexity raise some issues that require clarification. In our discussion of the temporality of
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