Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries : kinship, community and mortuary space / / Duncan Sayer

• Autore: Sayer Duncan
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 313 pages) :$b illustrations, charts; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 393/.10942
• Soggetto topico: Anglo-Saxons - Antiquities; Anglo-Saxons - Funeral customs and rites - England; Anglo-Saxons - Kinship; Merovingians - Kinship; Anglo-Saxons - Social life and customs; Merovingians - Social life and customs; Cemeteries - England - History; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Excavations (Archaeology) - Grave goods; Social archaeology - England; Social archaeology - France
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066; France History To 987
• Soggetto non controllato: Burial; Cemetery Organization; Community; Early Anglo-Saxon; Kinship; Merovingian; Mortuary Archaeology; Social Archaeology; Social Identity; Spatial Archaeology
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
• ISBN: 9781526153845 $q(PDF eBook); 152615384X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996552356603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Social archaeology and material worlds.