Uncovering the Germanic Past Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914

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ISBN: 9780199696710 | 0199696713
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Copyright: 7/26/2012

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Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology consists of scholarly works focusing on the history of archaeology throughout the world. The series cave the development of prehistoric, classical, colonial, and early historic archaeologies up to the present day. The studies, although researched at the highest level, are written in an accessible style and will interest a broad readership.

List of Illustrations	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xxiv
Introduction	p. 1
Writing the history of French archaeology	p. 1
Traces of the Germanic legacy in France	p. 3
National archaeology in the nineteenth century	p. 11
Reception of the archaeological profession	p. 23
Archaeological Research in Nineteenth-Century France
Centralizing Archaeological Research in Nineteenth-Century France	p. 33
Studying the national past from a provincial perspective	p. 33
Accounting for France's antiquities from 1810 to the 1840s	p. 35
Initiatives of the Comité des travaux historiques from the mid-nineteenth century	p. 48
Learned Societies and Archaeological Research in Nineteenth-Century France	p. 59
Contextualizing provincial antiquarian societies	p. 59
Rules and regulations	p. 62
The mechanics of learned societies	p. 67
Financial considerations and budgets	p. 77
The Politics of Merovingian Archaeology
Developing Approaches to Merovingian Archaeology	p. 91
Serendipitous discoveries of Merovingian cemeteries	p. 91
Launching a nineteenth-century excavation	p. 100
Standardizing excavations and documenting antiquities	p. 109
Spreading the gospel of archaeological methodology	p. 125
Methodological advances in the nineteenth century	p. 135
The Politics of Merovingian-Period Finds	p. 145
Archaeological particularism and regional identity	p. 145
Frankish finds in Lorraine and Normandy	p. 149
Rediscovering the Burgundian and Visigothic ancestors of the French	p. 154
Early medieval craniometry and racial ancestry	p. 167
The age of synthesis: mapping the big picture	p. 178
Institutionalizing the Amateur's Craft	p. 189
Studying the Merovingian monuments of France	p. 189
Corresponding on archaeology	p. 200
Archaeological education and the formation of a scientific discipline	p. 207
Signs of distinction: what makes an archaeologist professional?	p. 217
Archaeological Museums, Merovingian Antiquities, and their Audiences	p. 237
Assembling and displaying private collections	p. 237
Regional archaeology museums	p. 248
A national home for antiquities at Saint-Germain-en-Laye	p. 264
Defining the role of the Musée des antiquités nationales	p. 274
The Expositions universelles and the commodification of archaeology	p. 288
Public Reception of Merovingian-Period Finds	p. 299
Popularizing archaeology: newspapers and illustrated magazines	p. 299
Nos ancêtres les Gaulois? Historians debate the origins of France in the Revue des deux mondes	p. 311
Artistic imaginings of the première race	p. 322
Merovingians in the primary and secondary school curriculum: Founders of France or les rois fainéants?	p. 335
Epilogue	p. 351
Merovingian archaeology on the eve of World War I and afterwards	p. 351
Selected Bibliography	p. 367
Manuscript sources	p. 367
Printed and electronic sources	p. 369
Index	p. 409
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Uncovering the Germanic Past Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914

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