Burial in later Anglo-Saxon England c. 650-1100 AD /
Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has seen the publication of many important cemeteries and syn...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, England ; Oakville, CT. :
Oxbow Books,
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| ISBN: | 1842178210 9781842178218 1299485057 9781299485051 1842178199 9781842178195 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cemetery diversity in the mid to late Anglo-Saxon period in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire / Jo Buckberry
- Engenderedd bodies and objects of memory in final phase graves / Howard Williams
- Burial practice in seventh-century Hampshire: St Mary's stadium in context / Nick Stoodley
- "Such a resting-place as is necessary for us in God's sight and fitting in the eyes of the world": Saxon Southampton and the development of churchyard burial / Annia Kristina Cherryson
- An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worcester Cathedral / Christopher Guy
- Material symbolism and death: charcoal burial in later Anglo-Saxon England / James Holloway
- Differentiation in the later Anglo-Saxon burial ritual on the basis of mental or physical impairment: a documentary perspective / Sally Crawford
- Burying the socially and physically distinctive in later Anglo-Saxon England / D.M. Hadley
- The bowl hole burial ground: a late Anglian cemetery in Northumberland / Sarah Groves
- Investigating social status using evidence of biological status: a cast study from the Raunds Furnells / Elizabeth Craig and Jo Buckberry.