Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lucy, Sam; Reynolds, Andrew

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The demographic composition of cemeteries, burial rites and mortuary behaviour are considered alongside the political and landscape context of burial. This volume brings together a series of studies concerned with aspects of the archaeology of burial in early medieval England and Wales during the period AD 400-1100.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040087107
• Artikelnr.: 72484111

Autorenporträt

Sam Lucy, Andrew Reynolds

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements: List of contributors; Burial in early
medieval England and Wales: past, present and future; Cemeteries and
boundaries in western Britain; 'Remains of Pagan Saxondoms?; Burial
practice in early medieval eastern England: constructing local identities,
deconstructing ethnicity; Lies, damned lies, and the Curriculum Vitae:
reflections on statistics and the populations of early Anglo-Saxon
inhumation cemeteries; Multiple burials, multiple meanings? Interpreting
the early Anglo-Saxon multiple interment; Cross-channel contacts between
Anglo-Saxon England and Merovingian Francia; Reflections on the meaning of
Anglo-Saxon barrows; Persistent problems in the study of Conversion-Period
burials in England; The case of the missing Vikings: Scandinavian burial in
the Danelaw; Burials, boundaries and charters in Anglo-Saxon England: a
reassessment; Creating the sacred: Anglo-Saxon rites for consecrating
cemeteries; Burial practices in northern England in the later Anglo-Saxon
period; Constructing salvation: a homiletic and penitential context for
late Anglo-Saxon burial practice; Conquest, crime and theology in the
burial record: 1066-1200.