Nancy L. Wicker

Nancy L. Wicker
University of Mississippi | UM · College of Liberal Arts

Ph.D.

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Introduction
Please note that I am NOT a co-author of "Grand Rounds" and I am NOT a psychologist.
Additional affiliations
January 2003 - present
University of Mississippi
Position
  • Professor of Art History
Education
July 1990 - July 1990
University of Minnesota
Field of study
  • Ancient Studies

Publications

Publications (45)
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Even though Scandinavia is on the geographic periphery of Europe, it was vital to the cultural development of medieval Europe during the Viking Age of the ninth through eleventh centuries. This paper investigates how Scandinavian art counters many of our assumptions about media, religion and iconography, complicating our picture of medieval art in...
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Scandinavian gold pendants known as bracteates are dramatic testimony to the skill of Migration Period goldsmiths of the fifth and sixth centuries A. D. Microscopic examination of stamp marks impressed in border zones of these bracteates makes it possible to identify examples that were apparently produced with identical punch tools. These studies c...
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The Swedish Viking Age trading site of Birka, located on the small island of Björkö in Lake Mälar, is considered an area of such outstanding archaeological importance that it has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) list of World Heritage sites.1 This complex of archaeological monuments include...
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Small pendant discs known as Scandinavian gold bracteates are visually impressive indicators of status and identity during the early medieval Migration Period (c. 450–550 CE). Much of the emphasis in bracteate studies has been on typological classification and iconographic interpretation of the pictures, along with decipherment of the inscriptions,...
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A cylindrical container at San Isidoro in León is the only Viking object known from the Iberian Peninsula. The León piece is compared to other Viking artifacts of similar style and similar materials to place it in its context. The cylinder most probably is red-deer antler, and the carving is executed in the late-tenth and early-eleventh-century Vik...
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This book looks at the intersection between medieval studies and digital humanities, confronting how medievalists negotiate the 'virtual divide' between the cultural artefacts that they study and the digital means by which they address those artefacts. The essays come from medievalists who have created digital resources or applied digital tools and...
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Although nearly 1000 Scandinavian Migration Period (fifth-and sixth-century) gold pendants called bracteates have been discovered in Scandinavia and throughout northern and central Europe, only about twenty percent of these objects have inscriptions. The writing is mostly in the elder futhark but also in corrupted Latin copied from inscriptions on...
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Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England, by KershawJane F., 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-963952-6 hardback £65 & US$125; xx + 308 pp., 8 colour plates, 115 figs., 47 maps, 17 tables - Volume 23 Issue 3 - Nancy L. Wicker
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While much work has been done on goddesses of the ancient world and the male gods of pre-Christian Scandinavia, the northern goddesses have been largely neglected. Roles of the Northern Goddess presents a highly readable study of the worship of these goddesses by men and women. With its use of evidence from early literature, popular tradition, lege...
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ARCHAEOLOGY and art history are closely allied disciplines, particularly for the study of the medieval period. This paper seeks to compare and contrast archaeological with art historical approaches to medieval material culture in terms appropriate to an archaeological audience, much as Stanisław Tabaczyński examined the relationships between archae...

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