Folk beliefs and practice in medieval lives
By: edited by Ann-Britt Falk, Donata M. Kyritz.
Contributors: Falk, Ann-Britt.; Kyritz, Donata M.; European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 1757
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books [distributor
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781407301969
Subjects: Folklore -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe -- Congresses.; Europe -- Social life and customs -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.; Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Congresses.; Europe -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "...a collection of articles proceeding from a session held at the 7th [sic.] EAA conference in Cork, Ireland, 2005. The session was aimed at exploring the impact of folk beliefs in daily life"--P. ii.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ann-Britt Falk, Donata M. Kyritz; title: Place-names: a possibility of understanding the medieval and early-modern concept of ancient monuments? / Donata M. Kyritz; title: Myths and folklore as aids in interpreting the prehistoric landscape at the Carrowkeel passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo, Ireland / Sam MOore; title: Microhistory and ethnoarchaeology of a cultural landscape: the parish of San Pedro de Cereixa (Galicia, Spain) / Xurxo M. Ayán Vila; title: Traditions of Milesian invastion from the medieval Irish text An Lebor Gabála: the context of their survival in connection with archaeological monuments and topographic features on the south-west coast of Ireland / Simon Ó Faoláin; title: The power of tradition / Ann-Britt Falk; title: Pre-Christian and Christian: offering practices at two holy stones in Setomaa, south-east Estonia / Heiki Valk; title: The medieval Udmurt sacred sites: an alternative interpretation / Alexei Korobeinikov; title: Symbolic meanings in the slip decoration of medieval redware pottery / Marianna Niukkanen.