Frands Herschend
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frands Herschend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frands |
| FAMILY NAME | Herschend |
| SIGNATURE | HERSCHEND F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7713-941X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Origin of the Hall in Southern Scandinavia
In the late 1980s the course followed by archaeology took a decisive turn in as much as reconstructions of the past became uninteresting in themselves. Prehistory lost some of its artless charm when understanding the present instead of the past became the final product of archaeology. Although around 1970 there were theoretical arguments to put an end to traditional archaeology (e. g., Johansen 1974) seminar papers and contributions to archaeolog…
Homeland
This case study is a dolly shot that eventually stops and zooms in on the small settlement area defined by the adjacent settlements Torsholma and Rolsta in the 11th century. It starts with an overview of the larger string of settlements of which Torsholma-Rolsta represents the eastern end. Secondly, it discusses the entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E-version) for the year 1025 and this analysis corroborates Bo Gräslund’s 1986 identification of…
Towards a standardized discussion of priors in Bayesian analyses of 14C dated archaeological periods
This article focuses on Swedish and Scandinavian contract archaeology and 14C dating. It is a follow-up of a case study by Diinhoff and Slinning (2013), who discuss the 14C dating of a house from the Early Iron Age at Gjøsund, Ålesund, Norway. Their discussion is methodical and well-focussed, but intuitive when it comes to analysing 14C dates as probability distributions. Taking the case study forward, the same house is dated again using the same…
How Norse is Skírnismál? – A comparative case study
Venantius Fortunatus was a Latin, Ravenna educated, semi-political rhetorical poet active in Merovingian Francia in the late 6th century. Arriving in Austrasia from the Alps in the spring of 566, he wrote three poems, not least an epithalamium publicly performed at the wedding of Sigibert and Brunhild. This literary genre, its structure and the three addressees of his poems can be seen as a surprisingly detailed template for the Norse poem Skírni…
Historical or Textual Archaeology - An Archaeology of Critical Rereading
Based on a discussion of the relationship between history and archaeology, the author proposes a critical analysis of both written and material sources. All sources are considered textual and should be analysed (reread) on three levels: the conceptual, the intentional and the structural. In an example - an analysis of the meaning of the concept ’land'- the value of the analysis is shown to be the formation of a discursive and meaningful concept i…
Scandinavia and Northern Germany
The long Iron Age in northern Europe (c.500 BC–750 AD) was characterized by centuries of gradual development, punctuated by major episodes of transformation in the first century BC and the mid-first millennium AD. This chapter adopts a thematic approach, starting with the economy, envisaged as the intertwining of subsistence, exploitation of natural resources, and external acquisition. These lead to wider issues such as land ownership, social str…
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…
Inger Storli
Institut for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: Skrifter, vol 123, Oslo 2006. 224 pp. ISBN 978‐82‐7099‐435‐9. Inger Storli's book on Halogaland is written, and well written, completely in Nor
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…
Inger Storli
Institut for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: Skrifter, vol 123, Oslo 2006. 224 pp. ISBN 978‐82‐7099‐435‐9. Inger Storli's book on Halogaland is written, and well written, completely in Nor
Inger Storli
Institut for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: Skrifter, vol 123, Oslo 2006. 224 pp. ISBN 978‐82‐7099‐435‐9. Inger Storli's book on Halogaland is written, and well written, completely in Nor
Scandinavia and Northern Germany
The long Iron Age in northern Europe (c.500 BC–750 AD) was characterized by centuries of gradual development, punctuated by major episodes of transformation in the first century BC and the mid-first millennium AD. This chapter adopts a thematic approach, starting with the economy, envisaged as the intertwining of subsistence, exploitation of natural resources, and external acquisition. These lead to wider issues such as land ownership, social str…
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…
Historical or Textual Archaeology - An Archaeology of Critical Rereading
Based on a discussion of the relationship between history and archaeology, the author proposes a critical analysis of both written and material sources. All sources are considered textual and should be analysed (reread) on three levels: the conceptual, the intentional and the structural. In an example - an analysis of the meaning of the concept ’land'- the value of the analysis is shown to be the formation of a discursive and meaningful concept i…
How Norse is Skírnismál? – A comparative case study
Venantius Fortunatus was a Latin, Ravenna educated, semi-political rhetorical poet active in Merovingian Francia in the late 6th century. Arriving in Austrasia from the Alps in the spring of 566, he wrote three poems, not least an epithalamium publicly performed at the wedding of Sigibert and Brunhild. This literary genre, its structure and the three addressees of his poems can be seen as a surprisingly detailed template for the Norse poem Skírni…
Homeland
This case study is a dolly shot that eventually stops and zooms in on the small settlement area defined by the adjacent settlements Torsholma and Rolsta in the 11th century. It starts with an overview of the larger string of settlements of which Torsholma-Rolsta represents the eastern end. Secondly, it discusses the entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E-version) for the year 1025 and this analysis corroborates Bo Gräslund’s 1986 identification of…
Towards a standardized discussion of priors in Bayesian analyses of 14C dated archaeological periods
This article focuses on Swedish and Scandinavian contract archaeology and 14C dating. It is a follow-up of a case study by Diinhoff and Slinning (2013), who discuss the 14C dating of a house from the Early Iron Age at Gjøsund, Ålesund, Norway. Their discussion is methodical and well-focussed, but intuitive when it comes to analysing 14C dates as probability distributions. Taking the case study forward, the same house is dated again using the same…
The Origin of the Hall in Southern Scandinavia
In the late 1980s the course followed by archaeology took a decisive turn in as much as reconstructions of the past became uninteresting in themselves. Prehistory lost some of its artless charm when understanding the present instead of the past became the final product of archaeology. Although around 1970 there were theoretical arguments to put an end to traditional archaeology (e. g., Johansen 1974) seminar papers and contributions to archaeolog…
Historical and Archaeological Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Politics (3 works)