Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries : kinship, community and identity /
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. 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 plurali...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Social archaeology and material worlds.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Published as Open Access under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-306) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526135568 1526135566 9781526153845 152615384X 9781526135582 1526135582 |