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Sharing a Bed but Nothing Else : Bed Burial Traditions in First Millennium ad Europe
No full textThis article concerns the practice of bed burial, a rare funerary custom found in some sixth- to early tenth-century ad graves ranging from southern Germany to Scandinavia and England. Existing research has often overlooked the diversity of bed burials, focusing mainly on the reconstruction of the beds, their style, the status of the deceased, and the objects associated with them, without examining the broader implications of the ritual. Here, the author explores the variations in bed burials, their relationship to the deceased, the artefacts linked with them, and the surrounding contexts. Her study is based on a new assessment of every aspect of the ritual, including the location of the graves, the biological and social identity of the deceased, the burial assemblage, and whether the beds were complete. This approach aims to demonstrate that the practice of bed burial should be addressed in the plural.Cet article concerne la pratique d’inhumation des défunts sur un lit, une coutume funéraire relativement rare observée dans certaines tombes datant entre le VIe et le début du Xe siècle apr. J.-C., et réparties dans le sud de l’Allemagne, la Scandinavie et l’Angleterre. Les études menées jusqu’à présent ont souvent négligé la diversité des sépultures dites à lit, ayant surtout porté sur leur reconstruction leur style, le rang social des défunts et les objets qui leur étaient associés, sans considérer les implications plus amples de leur présence au sein du rituel funéraire. Dans cet article, l’auteure examine les variations parmi les sépultures à lit, leur rapport avec les défunts, le mobilier funéraire et le contexte environnant. Elle s’appuiesur une nouvelle évaluation de tous les aspects de cette pratique, y compris l’emplacement des sépultures, l’identité biologique et sociale des individus, le mobilier, et si les lits étaient entiers ou non. Cette approche vise à démontrer que cette pratique funéraire devrait être abordée dans toute sa pluralité
Du pillage au saccage : l’expertise archéologique d’urgence de la chapelle Saint-Georges de Céreste (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Revisiting, selecting, breaking and removing : Incomplete and fragmented Merovingian reopened graves in Western Europe
No full textAcross early medieval Europe, furnished graves have been regularly found in a disturbed condition, their contents missing or scattered, occasionally broken and thrown into intrusive cuts. Deliberate damage to objects has been suggested, in line with the established idea of violence associated with these post-burial intrusions. However, a close look at the process – type of object broken, sampling of only a few pieces – suggests another reality, challenging the assumption that any break is necessarily the result of a negative intention. Alongside the intentional fragmentation of contents, missing bones characterise a significant number of reopened graves – taphonomy or voluntary destruction during the intrusion are usually proposed as (unsatisfactory) explanations. In fact, this issue has been little considered in the research, and very few in-depth analyses have been carried out so far.This chapter explores the theme of incomplete and fragmented Merovingian reopened graves, not as a testimony to disrespectful practice but as an integral part of mortuary customs where the dead and their belongings played an active role in the lives of the living. It opens the discussion on the meaning of these specific gestures towards two very different kinds of remains: objects and human bones.</p
France is the Country of the Franks’. Construction of a National Identity Through Merovingian Burials
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