CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Kumir, Marino |
|---|---|
| Title | Memory and Authority in the Ninth-Century Dalmatian Duchy |
| Summary | This thesis investigates how ninth-century elites of the Dalmatian duchy used the imported trends of weapon burial rites and church-building as ways of expressing and performing authority and constructing and maintaining memory. Dalmatian duchy, like the whole eastern coast of Adriatic, underwent a dramatic process of transformation from the late eighth to the early ninth century. The evidence of this change was most apparent in the material culture where, among other things, weapons began to be deposited inside the graves of the elite. The new burial customs would not last for long, however, and they were gradually replaced by the increasingly more popular church-building trend. I argue that unlike the weapon rite which were single events confined by their temporality, the building of churches enabled the elites to express their power in more visible and permanent ways. The possibility to have a text carved upon the altar beams of churches gave them an opportunity to memorialize their names, their marriage, their rank within the society, their political allegiance and their piousness. |
| Supervisor | Ziemann, Daniel |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/kumir_marino.pdf |
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