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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Reynolds |
ISBN: | 9780198723158 0198723156 0199544557 9780199544554 0191720399 9780191720390 |
OCLC Number: | 890393037 |
Description: | xii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Sources, Approaches, and Contexts ; 2. Burials, Bodies, and Beheadings: Interpretation and Discovery ; 3. Social Deviants in a Pagan Society: the Fifth to Seventh Centuries ; 4. Social Deviants in a Christian World: the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries ; 5. The Geography of Deviant Burial in Anglo-Saxon England ; 6. Themes and Trajectories: the Wider Social Context ; Appendix 1. A handlist of Anglo-Saxon law-codes prescribing capital punishment, mutilation, and burial in unconsecrated ground ; Appendix 2. A handlist of early Anglo-Saxon deviant burials ; Appendix 3. A handlist of select burials from execution cemeteries ; Appendix 4. A handlist of execution and related sites, and other burial places in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds ; Bibliography |
Series Title: | Medieval history and archaeology. |
Responsibility: | Andrew Reynolds. |
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This scholarly and accessible study, which recognises the stark and often brutal reality of social power and judicial process, is recommended to anyone with an interest in early English society or the evolution of the English landscape. * Chris Scull, British Archaeology * Read more...
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- Anglo-Saxons -- Funeral customs and rites.
- Burial -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Deviant behavior -- England -- History.
- Capital punishment -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
- Burial -- history.
- Funeral Rites -- history.
- Archaeology -- methods.
- Culture.
- Burial.
- Capital punishment.
- Deviant behavior.
- England.
- Great Britain.