Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Zur Topographie der Macht : Dänische Burgen des 13. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. / Atzbach, Rainer.
I: Castella Maris Baltici, Bind XIII, 2018, s. 5-16.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Zur Topographie der Macht
AU - Atzbach, Rainer
N1 - Conference code: XIII
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The research project "Topography of Power" at Aarhus University seeks to explore the relationship between a castle and its surroundings. This presentation will outline the results from viewshed analyses of selected Danish castles with a known social background based on archaeological and written sources. This study is inspired by the family "von Hagen-Arnsburg-Münzenberg" who managed a rise both in social and in topographical terms moving their seat from the lowlands to the low rubble terrace and then finally on top of a prominent hill while also socially advancing from an unfree family of servants to upper nobility in the central German region Wetterau. This ambiguous rise is also evident in the Danish sites with the results indicating that the status of a castle's lord is mirrored by its visibility i.e. royal and ducal castles tend to be situated in prominent and visible positions, whereas knightly or peasant fortifications rather can be described as hide-outs.
AB - The research project "Topography of Power" at Aarhus University seeks to explore the relationship between a castle and its surroundings. This presentation will outline the results from viewshed analyses of selected Danish castles with a known social background based on archaeological and written sources. This study is inspired by the family "von Hagen-Arnsburg-Münzenberg" who managed a rise both in social and in topographical terms moving their seat from the lowlands to the low rubble terrace and then finally on top of a prominent hill while also socially advancing from an unfree family of servants to upper nobility in the central German region Wetterau. This ambiguous rise is also evident in the Danish sites with the results indicating that the status of a castle's lord is mirrored by its visibility i.e. royal and ducal castles tend to be situated in prominent and visible positions, whereas knightly or peasant fortifications rather can be described as hide-outs.
KW - Castle
KW - landscape
KW - Medieval Archaeology
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - XIII
SP - 5
EP - 16
JO - Castella Maris Baltici
JF - Castella Maris Baltici
Y2 - 24 August 2015 through 28 September 2015
ER -