scholarly journals The Language of Jewellery: Dress-accessories and Negotiations of Identity in Scandinavia, c. AD 400–650/70

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Continuous Complex ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Extended Area

In the 5th–7th centuries AD, members of the female population in Scandinavia frequently wore a costume adorned with conspicuous items of jewellery. Many of the items, such as brooches and clasps, were dress-accessories used to fasten these garments. Some of them, moreover, were popular over an extended area of Europe, and have been found in Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxon England and on the Continent alike. This book provides an analysis of more than 1,800 such items of jewellery from Scandinavia. It explores the contextual and geographical distribution through time of four major types of dress-accessory: cruciform brooches, relief brooches, wrist-clasps and conical brooches. Detailed analysis reveals distribution patterns and variations that provide new insights into the multifaceted reality of the Scandinavian pre-Viking period. The author argues that in a time characterized by social stress and upheaval, women played an important role in the negotiation of identities through the use of costume adorned with dress-accessories. These negotiations were part of a continuous, complex and ever-changing discourse of identity, in which different dimensions of multiple identities were generated, articulated and transformed. In some instances, a common identity is manifest even at a date which precedes by several centuries the unification of much the same areas into single medieval kingdoms, while social and political conditions could equally trigger either the material expression or the disappearance of shared identities at local, regional, and even pan-European levels. This book also offers a more nuanced view of ethnic groupings during the 5th–7th centuries by examining the inter-connectedness of the flexible and mobile ‘warrior nations’ of the Migration Period, and the territorially rooted, often historically documented ‘peoples’, who are reflected in the practices of female dress.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ulrich Becker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Different Dimensions

The chapter introduces the aim of the book, its structure, and its relevance, including an overview of previously published works in the field. It emphasises a double-sided understanding of the constitution of welfare states by way of background to the book, which aims to provide, from a comparative perspective, a detailed analysis of crisis-driven changes in the nine EU Member States that were particularly affected by the financial crisis. As a basis for the subsequent country reports and comparative analysis, this introduction explains different forms and functions of social protection and different dimensions and levels of human rights protection, as well as detailing the time and place of investigation.

The Ninth-Century Polychrome Decoration at St Mary's Church, Deerhurst

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 109-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Gem ◽  
Emily Howe ◽  
Richard Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Technical Analysis ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The West ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
Original Scheme ◽  
The Church ◽  
Contemporary Context

This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of surviving paintwork on the chancel arch, the carved animal heads and the figurative panel in the west porch at the Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, UK. The context of the polychromy in relation to the ninth-century fabric of the church is assessed. The detailed results of the technical analysis are presented. The original scheme of painted decoration is described, including the newly discovered plant scroll painted on the arch. The results of the examination are evaluated, setting the polychrome decoration of the ninth-century church into its contemporary context in England and on the Continent, with special regard to both the technical and the artistic aspects.

A Newly Identified Figure of the Virgin from a Late Anglo-Saxon Rood at Great Hale, Lincolnshire

2000 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Everson ◽  
David Stocker
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Funerary Monuments ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Stone Sculpture ◽  
First Time

During survey and recording work undertaken by the authors for the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture project in Lincolnshire between 1984 and 1991, over 375 stones were analysed and some hundred or so new discoveries are reported in the final publication. The most important conclusions drawn by the volume relate to the identification, for the first time, of groups of Anglo-Scandinavian funerary monuments and to conclusions regarding political and ecclesiastical affiliations which can be drawn from their distribution patterns. This note seeks to bring to wider attention, however, a single find of greater importance to art-historical studies of the late Anglo-Saxon period, and one which stands to one side of our more general conclusions regarding Anglo-Scandinavian politics and religion in the East Midlands.

Dancing girls and insect-headed gods: results of the rock art recording project in the Wadi al-Hayat, Fazzan, 2006

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 95-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tertia Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Digital Database ◽  
Recording Project ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
Rock Paintings ◽  
Systematic Identification

AbstractThe 2006 rock art survey continued the systematic identification and recording of rock art panels in the Wadi al-Hayat, started in 2004–5. Over 350 carved panels, comprising well over 1000 engraved images, were recorded and added to the digital database for the project. Anecdotal accounts of rock paintings were also followed up, and some meaningful observations were made.As the concentration of known carvings in the wadi grows, trends in their content and distribution begin to demonstrate some interesting patterns. Detailed analysis of the distribution patterns is currently hampered by an unreliable chronological sequence, and discoveries this season have cast doubt on the validity of the established sequence for this area, with wider implications for Saharan rock art.

Three Styles of Decoration on Anglo-Saxon Pottery

1937 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. N. L. Myres
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Ceramic Material ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The types of decoration used on Anglo-Saxon pottery of the pagan period in England have never yet received the detailed analysis which their variety and historical importance deserve. The time has not yet come when a comprehensive study can be attempted, for the great bulk of the pottery concerned either remains unpublished or has been published so inadequately that the student is compelled to go back to the originals before coming to any conclusions. But it does already seem possible to isolate certain of the commoner elements of the decorative schemes employed and to investigate their history and affinities. In the following pages the attempt is prompted by the exhibition and publication of two urns from Lincolnshire and one from London, all of which are in private ownership. These three vessels happen to illustrate three characteristic styles of decoration which seem to be fundamental in this line of study, and the following remarks are offered without any undue dogmatism, in the hope that they may at least make a start in the elucidation of what is undoubtedly the most neglected of all pre-medieval groups of English ceramic material.

Anglo-Saxon charters: the work of the last twenty years

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 211-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Old English ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Christ Church

1973 is an auspicious year for the study of the charters of the pre-Conquest period. At the time of writing, the publication of Professor A. Campbell's Anglo-Saxon Charters I, The Charters of Rochester is imminent. This is the first volume in a series in which the entire corpus of pre-Conquest charters is to be edited with full critical apparatus, with detailed analysis of their diplomatic, palaeographical, topographical and linguistic features and with extensive glossaries and indices. Professor Campbell's volume is part of a collaborative enterprise organized by a committee of The British Academy and The Royal Historical Society. When the series is complete, historians will no longer need to reiterate W. H. Stevenson's famous dictum, ‘It cannot be said that the Old English charters have yet been edited.’ One significant feature of the scheme deserves to be noted here; each volume will cover the charters of an archive that was in existence towards the end of the Old English period. Thus there will be one volume for Rochester, another for Christ Church, Canterbury, another for Exeter, another for Burton Abbey, and so on. Small archives will be grouped together with others from the same region or diocese to form suitable volumes. In this way the organization of the edition will itself reveal the local character of Anglo-Saxon charters which is so marked throughout their history. It will also bring to light the work of forgers for individual churches developing their claims to particular lands and rights by means of charters of apparently widely differing dates.

Alexithymia, social support, psycho-social stress and mental health in a female population

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Posse ◽  
T. Hällström ◽  
G. Backenroth-Ohsako
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Female Population

Differential distributions of two adducin-like protein isoforms in the Drosophila ovary and early embryo

Zygote ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle Zaccai ◽  
Howard D. Lipshitz
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Early Embryo ◽  
Protein Isoforms ◽  
Cytoskeletal Protein ◽  
Anterior Pole ◽  
Cytoskeletal Network ◽  
Drosophila Ovary

SummaryAdducin is a cytoskeletal protein that can function in vitro to bundle F-actin and to control the assembly of the F-actin/spectrin cytoskeletal network. The Drosophila Adducin-like (Add) locus (also referred to as hu-li tai shao (hts)) encodes a family of proteins of which several are homologous to mammalian adducin (Ding et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA90, 2512–16, 1993; Yue & Spradling, Genes Dev.6, 2443–54, 1992). We report the identification of two novel adducin isoforms: a 95 × 103Mr form (ADD-95) and an 87 × 103Mr form (ADD-87). We present a detailed analysis of the distribution patterns of ADD-95 and ADD-87 during oogenesis and embryogenesis. The isoforms are co-expressed in several cell- and tissuetypes; however, only ADD-87 is present in mid- to late-stage oocytes. ADD-87 is present throughout the oocyte cortex at stages 9 and 10 of oogenesis but is detectable only at the anterior pole from stage 11 onward, correlated with localisation of Add-hts mRNA first to the cortex and then to the anterior pole of the oocyte. ADD-87 co-localises with F-actin and spectrin in the cortex of the oocyte through stage 10 of oogenesis, consistent with a possible role in cytoskeletal assembly or function predicted by mammalian studies.

Avatar

2014 ◽  
pp. 82-101
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Virtual Identity ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Different Dimensions

This chapter presents and discusses the avatar. The authors approach the breakthrough of the technologicized body, under the perspective of creating a digital virtual identity, the avatar, which appears linked to the metaverse technology in the construction of 3D Digital Virtual Worlds. They present and discuss subtopics like: “Avatar: A Technologicized Body,” “The Construction of a Digital Virtual Identity,” and “Avatar: The Representation/Action of the ‘Digital Virtual Self' through the Technologicized Body.” In a brief conclusion about the chapter, the authors highlight the multiple identities that constitute us, through the self-consciousness of “self,” the body to perform actions, and reflections to assign meaning, and the technologicized body through the avatar. Therefore, the authors have shown the co-existence and the multiple and different dimensions.

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