Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
Kinship, Community and Identity
Seiten
2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3556-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3556-8 (ISBN)
This book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were pluralistic, multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories. -- .
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.
Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, using a multi-dimensional methodology to move beyond artefacts. It offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistically focused perspective. The physical communication of digging a grave and laying out a body was used to negotiate the arrangement of a cemetery and to construct family and community stories. This approach foregrounds community, because people used and reused cemetery spaces to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased, based on their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology. -- .
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.
Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, using a multi-dimensional methodology to move beyond artefacts. It offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistically focused perspective. The physical communication of digging a grave and laying out a body was used to negotiate the arrangement of a cemetery and to construct family and community stories. This approach foregrounds community, because people used and reused cemetery spaces to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased, based on their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology. -- .
Duncan Sayer is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire -- .
1 Negotiating early Anglo-Saxon cemetery space
2 The syntax of cemetery space
3 Mortuary metre
4 The grammar of graves
5 Intonation on the individual
6 Early Anglo-Saxon community
Afterword
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Social Archaeology and Material Worlds |
Zusatzinfo | 107 black & white illustrations |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 649 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-3556-6 / 1526135566 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-3556-8 / 9781526135568 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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