Forschungsprojekt

Gold Bracteates Online

Creation and maintenance of a website with information to all Migration Period gold bracteates

Zusammengefasst

Gold bracteates from the Migration Period are a phenomenon specific to Northern Europe. As illustrated pendants, they provide insights into the history of mentalities, social structures, networks and communication systems, as well as into the technology of the mid-1st millennium. At LEIZA, location Schleswig, a publicly accessible research website containing data on all known bracteates is being developed: www.goldbracteates.eu. It is part of the overall research in ancient imagery at LEIZA. The first pages are online.

Well over 1,000 pendant amulets, known as ‘gold bracteates’, have been found in what is now Scandinavia and parts of Western and Central Europe. They play a central role in research into the system of ideas and values in Europe during the middle of the first millennium. Their imagery reflects people’s relationship with the Roman Empire and its successor cultures, whilst expressing distinct worldviews and identities of which no written sources make mention.

The website presents all gold bracteates in text and images. Once complete, it will offer numerous sorting and search options, for example regarding the distribution of specific types, image elements and motif groups. In addition, maps of specific finds and clusters can be generated. The aim is to make this significant type of artefact with its many images and symbols, its manufacturing characteristics and numerous other features of individual pieces accessible to contemporary research in an appropriate and up-to-date manner.

First and foremost, the website presents information compiled between 1985 and 1987 by Karl Hauck and his ‘International bracteate team’ that has been published in the ‘Iconographic Catalogue’ of gold bracteates (see below). It also includes data from the 2011 supplement. All gold bracteates that have come to light since then are being added here gradually, provided that no criteria (e.g. image rights) prevent this. Both the management and the research continue to be the responsibility of the ‘International bracteate team’ and its many partners in Europe.

More Information

www.goldbracteates.eu

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Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Alexandra G. Pesch
+49 4621 9859-642
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Projektzeitraum

Seit 01.2023

Internationales Brakteatenteam / International bracteate team: 

  • Prof. Dr. Morten Axboe, Kopenhagen
  • Prof. Dr. Sigmund Oehrl, Stavanger
  • Dr. Charlotte Behr, London
  • Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heizmann, Göttingen

Runologische Eingaben / Information on runes: Prof. Dr. Robert Nedoma, Wien.

  • Pesch, Alexandra. 2007. Thema und Variation – Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit (Ergänzungsbände zum RGA 36). Berlin/New York: DeGruyter.
  • Pesch, Alexandra. 2019. Fragmente einer Weltanschauung: Goldbrakteaten und Goldhalsringe aus Niedersachsen. In: Saxones. Eine neue Geschichte der alten Sachsen, Hg.: Babette Ludowici (Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung 7). Darmstadt, S. 158-165.
  • Heizmann, Wilhelm/Axboe, Morten (Hg.). 2011. „Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit – Auswertung und Neufunde“ (Ergänzungsbände zum RGA 40). Berlin/New York: DeGruyter.
  • Pesch, Alexandra. 2011. Netzwerk der Zentralplätze. Elitenkontakte und Zusammenarbeit frühmittelalterlicher Reichtumszentren im Spiegel der Goldbrakteaten. In: Heizmann/Axboe (Hg.) 2011, S. 231–277.
  • Hauck, Karl, et al. 1985–1989. „Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit. Ikonographischer Katalog“ (Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften 24, 1,1 bis 3,2). München: Fink Verlag. 

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