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| Title | Fæstninger, magasiner og symboler - Østersøens flertydige kirker |
| Author/s | Jes Wienberg |
| Department/s |
Historical Archaeology
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Publication/Series | Meta: Medeltidsarkeologisk tidskrift |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 26 - 58 |
| Document type | Journal article |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Language | Danish |
| Publisher | Lund : Medeltidsarkeologiska föreningen |
| Abstract English | Fortresses, Storehouses and Symbols - ambiguous churches of the Baltic Sea: Källa on Öland is used as a point of departure in a discussion of the so-called defensive churches or multi-functional churches at the Baltic Sea. The categorization of medieval society into four separate spheres, the church, the castle, the town and the countryside, is criticised as having created a heterogenous group of deviant churches. The deviant churches have been interpreted in three competitive perspectives: 1) defense, 2) profane function and 3) symbolic form. However, to understand the deviant churches it is necessary to combine the perspectives. The multi-functional churches represented a fusion, where the sacred and the profane were integrated. The whole point was, that a broad specter of functions such as hostelry, residence and store were made sacred by being integrated in the church building or church yard. Most of the multi-functional churches at the Baltic Sea belong to the period c. 1170-1240 and might be connected to the Danish empire, the crusades and the Saint Canute Guilds. When peace broke down in the 1240s, some of the multi-functional churches were symbolically fortified as also several towns and many manors. |
| Subject |
History and Archaeology |
| Keywords | crusades, Medieval churches |
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ISSN: 0348-7903 |
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