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Senior Lecturer in Roman and Early Medieval History

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3069
Email : C.Behr@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Humanities
Office location : Howard 109B

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Qualifications

Dr phil (Universität Münster)

About

In her research Charlotte Behr focuses on northern and western Europe in the late Roman and early medieval periods. She is particularly interested in the material and visual culture of these countries on the periphery of the Roman Empire. In her publications she has presented research on various aspects of migration-period gold bracteates, on their iconography, functions and meanings. Currently she is investigating the role and power of images within religious and political contexts in Scandinavian societies of the 5th and 6th centuries.

Research Interests

- Late Roman and early medieval northern European material and visual culture 

- Role and power of images in migration-period Europe 

- Gold bracteates: research history, iconography, political and religious context 

- Bracteates in Anglo-Saxon England

Teaching Interests

- Roman and early medieval history and archaeology: texts, objects, images 
- theories of history and historiography 

Publications

() Forschungsgeschichte, Axboe, Morten, Beck, Heinrich, Behr, Charlotte, Düwel, Klaus, Heizmann, Wilhelm, Pesch, Alexandra (eds), Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit: Interdisziplinäre Studien, Ergänzungsbände zum RGA, Berlin forthcoming 2009.
(2011) An unusual new gold A-bracteate find from Scalford, Leicestershire, Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Martin G. Welch, edited by Stuart Brookes, Sue Harrington and Andrew Reynolds, BAR British Series 527, 1-6.
(2010) New Bracteate Finds from Early Anglo-Saxon England, Medieval Archaeology, 54, 34-88.
(2010) The Power and Function of Images in Northern Europe during the Migration Period, Cultural and Social History, 7.4, 453-466.
(2007) Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts, Incipient Globalisation? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century, ed by Anthea Harris, Reading Medieval Studies Volume 32, BAR IS 1644 , 15-25.
Wilhelm Heizmann (Heilswörter) (2005) Sinnbilder und Heilswörter, Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 28, 467-473.
J. P. Lamm, M. Axboe, K. Hauck, H. Beck, A. Pesch (2001) 'Der Brakteat des Jahrhunderts'. Über den einzigartigen zehnten Brakteaten aus Söderby in der Gemeinde Danmark, Uppland, Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 34, 1-94, 49-51.
(2001) Do bracteates identify influential women in early medieval kingdoms?, Kingdoms and Regionality (Stockholm), 95-101.
(2001) Kreuz, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 17, 324-328.
(2003) Immigration and Emigration. Evidence of the Jutes, www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/kent/article_5.shtml.
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