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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Andrew (Andrew J.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Medieval history and archaeology.
Subjects:
Anglo-Saxons > Funeral customs and rites.
Anglo-Saxons > Social life and customs.
Deviant behavior > England > History.
Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > England > History > To 1500.
England > Social life and customs > To 1066.
England > Moral conditions > History.
England > Social conditions > To 1066.
Anglo-Saxons > Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
Anglo-Saxons > Mœurs et coutumes.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 449-1066 (Période anglo-saxonne)
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 1066.
Angleterre > Conditions morales > Histoire.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1066.
HISTORY.
Anglo-Saxons > Social life and customs
Deviant behavior
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Moral conditions
Social conditions
England
Great Britain
To 1500
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.