Cosmological Enburance
Pagan Identities in Early Christian Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7989064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lotte Hedeager (University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 382-396 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/146195798799774214 |
| OpenAlex | W4231913660 |
| Language | EN |
In this article, I attempt to show how the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period in Early Chiristian Europe (c. AD 400–500) created – or preserved – a pagan Scandinavian myth of their origin as a, significant part of their identity and perception. The function of the myths as political and ideological legitimations is related to the iconography of the material culture, notably the early animal ornamentation (Salins' Style I). Integration of the written evidence and the archaeological sources makes it possible to demonstrate how origins, myths and iconography together express a formative core of pagan identity in Early Christian Europe
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Formative assessment · Iconography · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classics · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |