Andrew Reynolds

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Burials of 'deviants' show clear development in this period, moving from locally determined practice in the pre-Christian era, to formal execution cemeteries imposed as kingdoms were consolidated from the seventh century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199544554
• ISBN-10: 0199544557
• Artikelnr.: 24924681

Autorenporträt

After a career in field archaeology Andrew Reynolds studied for the BA Medieval Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, where he completed his PhD in 1998. His core research interests are the archaeology and history of state formation and landscape structure in Anglo-Saxon England, in comparative European perspective. He is now Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the Institute. Andrew's fieldwork and research interests have taken him from the UK to Ethiopia and Russia, while he is currently working on early medieval rural settlement in the Basque Country.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Sources, Approaches, and Contexts
* 2: Burials, Bodies, and Beheadings: Interpretation and Discovery
* 3: Social Deviants in a Pagan Society: the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
* 4: Social Deviants in a Christian World: the Seventh to Eleventh
Centuries
* 5: The Geography of Deviant Burial in Anglo-Saxon England
* 6: Themes and Trajectories: the Wider Social Context
* Appendix 1. A handlist of Anglo-Saxon law-codes prescribing capital
punishment, mutilation, and burial in unconsecrated ground
* Appendix 2. A handlist of early Anglo-Saxon deviant burials
* Appendix 3. A handlist of select burials from execution cemeteries
* Appendix 4. A handlist of execution and related sites, and other
burial places in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds
* Bibliography