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Carolingian swords from Croatia – new thoughts on an old topic

A relatively large number of Carolingian swords have been found in Croatia, most of them during the early archaeological excavations of the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century. They have been discussed many times since then, but still they leave space and opportunity for new insights and conclusions. Some shall be presented in this paper, such as new typological considerations of the swords usually attributed to Petersen's distinctive type 1 and some thoughts on a finely decorated type K sword which belongs to a small but well defined group of similar finds from different parts of Europe. After the typological considerations, the possible active role of these objects in the formation of elite identity in the context of the emerging Croatian dukedom is shortly discussed.

swords; typology; Carolingians; early medieval Croatia; elite identity

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