Martin Carver
Autor/a de Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?
Sobre l'autor
Martin Carver was an army officer for fifteen years, a commercial archaeologist for thirteen and Professor of Archaeology at the University of York from 1986 to 2007. He has created two commercial archaeology units (Birmingham Archaeology and FAS-Heritage Ltd.) and initiated two museums (at Sutton mostra'n més Hoo and Portmahomack). He has carried out archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria and is the author of Archaeological Investigation (2009). mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Martin Carver
The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300 (2004) — Editor; Introducció — 41 exemplars
Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-century Princely Burial Ground And Its Context (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society… (2005) 15 exemplars
Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD (Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe) (2019) 8 exemplars
Arguments in Stone: Archaeological Research and the European Town in the First Millennium (1993) 3 exemplars
Sutton Hoo 2 exemplars
Transactions Of The Worcestershire Archaeological Society Third Series Vol. 7, 1980 Medieval Worcester An Archaelogical… (1980) 2 exemplars
Medieval Worcester - An Archaeological Framework: Reports, Surveys, texts and Essays (1980) 2 exemplars
Antiquity - Vol, 84, No. 326 1 exemplars
Making archaeology happen : design versus dogma 1 exemplars
Tarbat Discovery Programme - Bulletin No. 2 1996 1 exemplars
Discovery at Tarbat 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture) (Volume 18) (2020) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World: Converting the Isles I (Cultural Encounters in… (2016) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Carver, Martin Oswald Hugh
- Data de naixement
- 1941
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Educació
- University of London (BS)
Durham University (Dip. Archaeology) - Professions
- archaeologist
professor (Archaeology | University of York)
director of research (Tarbat, Scotland)
director of research (Sutton Hoo, England)
editor (Antiquity) - Relacions
- Hummler, Madeleine (partner)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 34
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 405
- Popularitat
- #60,014
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 45
- Preferit
- 1
Here he states “A burial is composed of selected objects and it is likely that the objects, taken individually and together, were also full of allusions to rank, power, ancestry, ideology and allegiance to kin at home and overseas. I therefore regard a ship burial as just as much a poem as Beowulf is, just as difficult to interpret but just as capable of giving us insights into the Anglo-Saxon mind. Burials are poems written with material culture; so that the choice of burial rite and choice of what is put into the grave are choices to what was known or feared or loved by the mourners.”
“Neither Sutton Hoo or Beowulf represents a straight account of reality. Both contain allusions to the real world, but we do not know for certain which the were.”
*so the Beowulf course i was in has taken me from Tacitus writing in the 2nd A.D. to Sutton Hoo with Basil’s 1939 dig** and various interpretations of Beowulf (Heaney, Hedley, Tolkien) including modern novels and movies (Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead and The 13th Warrior and The Mere Wife). Now onto Gardner’s Grendel and Ibn Fadlan’s travels.
**Serendipitously, last year before the Beowulf course, I’d watched the movie The Dig with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan as Basil Brown and Edith Pretty which, based on this reading, fairly accurately captures the events surrounding that dig (well, except the whole love triangle (?) tangent involving Lily James)… (més)