Title Anglo-Saxon deviant burial customs / Andrew Reynolds

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations Series Medieval history and archaeology Medieval history and archaeology. 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 Summary 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 included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the ear Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-312) and index Notes Print version record Subject Anglo-Saxons -- Funeral customs and rites Anglo-Saxons -- Social life and customs Deviant behavior -- England -- History Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- To 1500 HISTORY. Anglo-Saxons -- Social life and customs Deviant behavior Funeral rites and ceremonies Manners and customs Moral conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730 England -- Social life and customs -- To 1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043319 England -- Moral conditions -- History England -- Social conditions -- To 1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002599 Subject England Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191567650 0191567655 0199544557 9780199544554

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