Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries : kinship, community and identity

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries kinship, community and identity

Machine generated contents note: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.

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1. Verfasser: Sayer, Duncan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Social archaeology and material worlds
Schlagworte:
Anglo-Saxons > Funeral customs and rites > Merovingians > Cemeteries > History > Social archaeology > Great Britain > France > England > Angelsachsen > Bestattungsritus > Grabbeigabe
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Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: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.
"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."-- Back cover
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-306) and index
Beschreibung:xxi, 313 pages
illustrations, maps
24 cm
ISBN:9781526135568
978-1-5261-3556-8
1526135566
1-5261-3556-6