Folk Beliefs and Practice in Medieval Lives

Nine papers from a session held at the EAA conference in Cork, Ireland, in 2005. Contents: 1) Introduction (Ann-Britt Falk and Donata M. Kyritz); 2) Place-names - a possibility of understanding the medieval and early-modern concept of ancient monuments? (Donata M. Kyritz); 3) Myths and folklore as aids in interpreting the prehistoric landscape at the Carrowkeel passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo, Ireland (Sam Moore); 4) Microhistory and Ethnoarchaeology of a cultural landscape: the parish of San Pedro de Cereixa (Galicia, Spain) (Xurxo M. Ayssn Vila); 5) Traditions of the Milesian invasion from the medieval Irish text An Lebor Gabssla; the context of their survival in connection with archaeological monuments and topographic features on the south-west coast of Ireland (Simon O Faolssin) 6) The power of tradition (Ann-Britt Falk); 7) Pre-Christian and Christian: offering practices at two holy stones in Setomaa, south-east Estonia (Heiki Valk); 8) The Medieval Udmurt Sacred Sites - an alternative interpretation (Alexei Korobeinikov); 9) Symbolic meanings in the slip decoration of medieval red-ware pottery Marianna Niukkanen).