Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010
Abstract
S-shaped rings appear in the Western Slavonic milieu and the Carpathian Basin in the course of the tenth century. Over the next two hundred years, this simple women’s jewellery is the most frequent and sometimes even the only artefact found in period burial grounds.
The study submitted focuses on the territory of Bohemia and Moravia. On the bases of a synopsis of the available dating supports, the first part offers a current idea of the origin and development of the jewellery.
The subsequent section is devoted to the question of to what extent the uneven distribution of hair-rings is exploitable for the reconstruction of property-legal differences in early mediaeval society.