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Anglo-Saxon deviant burial customs / Andrew Reynolds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Andrew (Andrew J.)
- Series:
- Medieval History and Archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anglo-Saxons--Funeral customs and rites.
- Anglo-Saxons.
- Anglo-Saxons--Social life and customs.
- Deviant behavior--England--History.
- Deviant behavior.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--England--History--To 1500.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
- Great Britain.
- England--Social life and customs--To 1066.
- England.
- England--Moral conditions--History.
- England--Social conditions--To 1066.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the ear
- Contents:
- Sources, approaches, and contexts
- Burials, bodies, and beheadings : interpretation and discovery
- Social deviants in a pagan society : the fifth to seventh centuries
- Social deviants in a Christian world : the seventh to eleventh centuries
- The geography of deviant burial in Anglo-Saxon England
- Themes and trajectories : the wider social context.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-312) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612235047
- 1-282-23504-4
- 0-19-156765-5
- OCLC:
- 430942922
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