Le Moyen Âge s’étend sur plus de mille ans. Les historiens des textes le font débuter en 476, à la fin du règne de Romulus Augustule, dernier empereur romain d'Occident, ou en 496, date du baptême de Clovis. Il se termine soit en 1453, avec la prise de Constantinople par les Turcs et la fin de l'Empire romain d'Orient, soit en 1492, date de l’accostage de Christophe Colomb sur le continent américain, ou encore à la mort de Louis XI en 1481.

Ouvrages
03/12/2019
Rural habitat forms in the Middle Ages, in Northern Limagne and Sologne bourbonnaise

From the fertile black soils of Limagne to the sandy-clay plateaus of the Sologne bourbonnaise, Middle Age farmers have shaped the landscapes that...

Ouvrages
09/07/2019
Producing and working with iron: The workshops of the eastern Parisian Basin from the 5th century BC to the 10th century AD

Combining archaeological studies and archaeometric analyses, this synthesis presents the importance of the iron economy in the eastern part of the...

Les découvertes
06/12/2017
Discovery of a mikveh in the medieval Jewish quarter of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux

A ritual Jewish bath, a mikveh, may have been located a cellar in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (Drôme). The city entrusted the study of this cellar...

Les découvertes
12/10/2017
The country residence of the bishops of Thérouanne

At Saint-Martin-d’Hardinghem, in advance of the construction of flood retention basins in the Aa river valley, Inrap excavated, in partnership...

Films d'exposition
07/02/2017
Archeology in 12 Minutes

In an original narrative mode, illustrated with numerous archive images, Christian Rist and Jean-Paul Fargier tell us the history of archeology,...

Films d'animation
06/02/2017
The early Middle Ages
Revues
30/01/2017
Archéopages 43 - Medicine
Les découvertes
10/01/2017
In Rennes, a new vision of the history of death

From 2011 to 2013, an Inrap team, under curation by the State (Drac Bretagne), conducted an integral preventive excavation of the Jacobin convent,

Ouvrages
25/11/2016
The Pratz le Curtillet settlement: A Merovingian establishment in the Jura highlands (late 6th-7th century)

Among the earliest habitats of the early Middle Ages studied in Franche-Comté, the Pratz le Curtillet a settlement sets itself apart by its...

Colloques
24/11/2016
Archaeology of Violence

An international symposium organised by the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research and the Louvre-Lens Museum.

2, 3...

Les découvertes
24/02/2016
The first medieval Muslim graves in France

 Researchers from Inrap and the Pacea UMR, Université de Bordeaux, have published in the PlosOne review, the first archaeological and biological...

Revues
31/07/2015
Archéopages 42 - Build in raw clay

What is the status of this building material compared to others? Is its use linked to specific functions of construction? To the social status of...

Conférences
31/05/2015
Migrations during the Medieval and Modern periods

Archaeology of Migrations 
by Isabelle Catteddu, Inrap

Conférences
30/05/2015
The “Barbarian Invasions“: sources, methods, ideologies

Archaeology of Migrations 
by Bruno Dumézil, Université Paris Ouest

Conférences
28/05/2015
Scandinavian immigration onto the continent in the 10th century: archaeology of the invisible?

Archaeology of Migrations 
by Vincent Carpentier, Inrap

Les découvertes
27/02/2015
The underground surprises of Sébastopol Boulevard: archaeology of theTrinity cemetery

Until March 2015, and Inrap team is excavating, under prescription by the State (Drac Ile-de-France), 100 m2 of the basement of the...

Revues
31/01/2015
Archéopages 41 - The horse's place

Honoured, mythified, but also hunted, eaten and exploited, has the horse really benefited from a privileged status among domestic animals? What...

Conférences
13/10/2014
Checkmate: comparing the skeletal evidence of the death of King Richard III with other medieval weapon trauma

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
by Tim Sutherland, University of York

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