THE HISTORY OF STUDIES OF SCANDINAVIAN RINGED PINS (PENANNULAR BROOCHES)
The article covers the history of the study of Scandinavian longpinned and ring-shaped brooches, which were used as cloak fasteners in Northern and Eastern Europe in the 9th-11th centuries. Like in Scandinavia, in Old Rus’, ring-shaped brooches were part of the prestigious clothes of the military estate. The author mainly analyzes the Russian and foreign studies of this category of jewelry and reviews publications with references to ring-shaped brooches, though without any interpretation. Taking into account the gradually increasing number of finds of ring-shaped brooches, existing studies cannot be considered exhaustive either in quantitative terms or in terms of the range of issues raised. Since the publication of one of the first papers dealing with ring-shaped fasteners, which appeared in 1928 in J. Petersen’s book Jewelry of the Viking Age, scholars have no longer attempted at compiling any full-fledged corpus and comparative analysis of finds from different regions of Northern and Eastern Europe. Almost all subsequent studies of this issue, in one way or another, were based on Petersen’s research and developed it. The list of works with the analysis of the long-known and new finds of this group of men’s jewelry contains no more than four titles belonging to L. Thunmark-Nylen, J. Graham-Campbell, T. Fannig, E. Nosov and N.V. Khvoshchinskaya. Most publications, including almost all Russian historiography, only list and briefly describe the ring-shaped fibulae. This article, for the first time, examines all the studies of ring-shaped brooches from the point of view of similarities and differences in scholarly approaches, determines the range of topical issues that have not yet attracted due attention, and to advance new research methods.