Bücher der Reihe PALMA

Research into collecting practices by national museums, institutes and individuals during the 19th and early 20th-century.

Research into collecting practices by national museums, institutes and individuals during the 19th and early 20th-century.

Excavation report of two New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara (Egypt) dating to the reigns of Akhenaten and Tutankamun.

An interdisciplinary volume on the emperor Domitian which re-evaluates his importance within Roman history and his reception thereafter.

An interdisciplinary volume on the emperor Domitian which re-evaluates his importance within Roman history and his reception thereafter.

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This third edition, ¿Dorestad and its Networks¿, coincided with the fiftieth birthday of finding the famous Dorestad brooch in July 1969, and with what would have been the hundredth birthday of prof.dr. Ina Isings, to whom a special session on early-medieval glass was dedicated.The Third Dorestad Congress brought together scholars from the North Sea area to debate Dorestad and its counterparts in Scandinavia, the British Isles and the Rhineland, as well as the material culture, urbanisation and infrastructure of the Early Middle Ages. The contributions in these proceedings are devoted to new research into the Vikings at Dorestad, assemblages of jewellery, playing pieces and weaponry from the town, recent excavations at other Carolingian sites in the Low Countries, and the use and trade of glassware and broadswords in this era. They show the political, economic and cultural networks of Dorestad, the only town to be called ¿vicus famosus¿ in contemporary sources.ContentsDorestad and its Networks: An IntroductionAnnemarieke WillemsenVikings and Luxury at DorestadViking Dorestad: A Haven for Hydrarchy?Christian CooijmansVikings beyond Dorestad: Rethinking some metal finds in, around and after the emporiumNelleke IJssennagger ¿ van der PluijmTrading Games? Playing with/without the Vikings in DorestadMark A. HallA new gold ring from Dorestad?Channa Cohen Stuart and Annemarieke WillemsenBeads from DorestadMette LangbroekMixed Emotions: The swords from DorestadAnnemarieke WillemsenThe Medieval NetherlandsA Carolingian coin hoard from Wirdum (Friesland, the Netherlands) and the Dorestad mintSimon CouplandTimber! Opening up the landscape of Carolingian LeiderdorpMenno DijkstraCharlemagne¿s palace at Nijmegen: Some thoughts on the economic implications of itinerant kingshipArjan den BravenBeyond the planned/unplanned dichotomy: The development of the town plan of Utrecht until c.1560Marcel IJsselstijnCommerce and ConflictProduction of early medieval glass in Cologne and its export via DorestadMichael Dodt, Andreas Kronz and Klaus SimonGlass vessels from the early medieval emporium at IpswichRose BroadleyNon-funerary sword depositions in Carolingian EuropeDüan MaczekForm follows function: Reconstructing the use of Viking age swordsIngo Petri

Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has been written about this, and research and discussion about ritual killing continue. This book offers contributions to this on-going discussion, by a re-evaluation of the term human sacrifice, arguing that not all forms of ritual killing can be considered to be sacrificial.Experts from different disciplines present new insights into the subject of ritual homicide in various regions of the ancient world. Various aspects of the phenomenon are discussed, such as offering humans to gods, making servants accompany their masters into the hereafter, and ritual killing in connection with execution of criminals and captives.While in some cultures ritual killing was accepted, others would consider it a symptom of barbarism and would use it as a reason or pretext for hostility, war, or genocide. Thus the Romans justified the violence against Carthage partly because of this, early Christians were accused of infanticide, while in turn they accused Jews of the same. The Spanish conquistadores used the argument to justify the genocide on indigenous Americans. The last chapter concerns one of the last surviving forms of ritual killing in recent history: headhunting among the Asmat.ContentsHuman sacrifice and ritual killing, defining the fieldKarel C. InneméeRitual killing of humans in ancient MesopotamiaTheo KrispijnRitual Homicide in ancient EgyptJacobus van DijkSacrifice and ritual killing of humans in the Etruscan world?Bouke van der MeerPhoenician synthesis: patterns of human sacrifice and problems with ritual killingBrien GarnandHuman sacrifice from ancient Israel to early ChristianityKarel C. InneméeDeconstructing the Aztec human sacrificeMaarten JansenDeath and new life: an intimate relationshipPieter ter KeursBibliographyList of authors