Ritual objects: placed deposits in medieval churches

Gilchrist, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1967-2558 (2019) Ritual objects: placed deposits in medieval churches. In: Ljung, c., Sjögren, A. A., Berg, I., Engström, E., Hållans Stenholm, A.-M., Jonsson, K., Klevnäs, A., Qviström, L. and Zachrisson, T. (eds.) Tidens landskap. En vänbok till Anders Andrén. Nordic Academic Press, Lund, pp. 173-175. ISBN 9789188909121

Abstract/Summary

This paper considers the evidence for placed deposits in later medieval Christian contexts, focusing particularly on parish and monastic churches. The aim is to consider placed deposits within the contextual framework of Christian ritual, to trace patterns in the types of object deposited in churches and to begin to establish frameworks of reference in which they may be understood. These practices are not recorded in medieval documents and have therefore fallen outside the orbit of historical scholarship on popular religion and magic.

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Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology
Publisher	Nordic Academic Press
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