Between Representation and Eternity: The Archaeology of Praying in Late Medieval and Post-Medieval times
Rainer Atzbach
This paper seeks to explore how prayer and praying practice are reflected in archaeological sources. Apart from objects directly involved the personal act of praying, such as rosaries books, churches religious foundations played a major role medieval system intercession. At death, an individual's corpse burial primarily reflect social representation during funeral. The position arms, which have incorrectly been used chronological tool Scandinavia, may indicate evolution more collective up eleventh century AD individual way late post-medieval periods.
European Journal of Archaeology