Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages

by Sayer, Duncan; Williams, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780859898317
• ISBN10: 0859898318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-03
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This book sets a new agenda for mortuary archaeology. Applying explicit theoretical perspectives to case studies based on a range of European sites (from Scandinavia to Britain, Southern France to the Black Sea), Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages fulfils to need for a volume that provides accessible material to students and engages with current debates in mortuary archaeology's methods and theories.

Author Biography

Duncan Sayer is a lecturer at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath and a contributor to the Handbook of British Archaeology. Howard Williams is senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Chester and author of Death & Memory in Early Medieval Britain.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
'Halls of mirrors': death and identity in medieval archaeology	p. 1
Working with the dead	p. 23
Beowulf and British prehistory	p. 46
Fighting wars, gaining status: on the rise of Germanicelites	p. 64
'Hunnic' modified skulls: physical appearance, identity and the transformative nature of migrations	p. 64
Rituals to free the spirit - or what the cremation pyre told	p. 81
Barrows, roads and ridges - or where to bury the dead? The choice of burial grounds in late Iron Age Scandinavia	p. 104
Anglo-Saxon DNA?	p. 123
Laws, funerals and cemetery organisation: the seventh-century Kentish family	p. 141
On display: envisioning the early Anglo-Saxon dead	p. 170
Variation in the British burial rite: AD 400-700	p. 207
Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-AD 700 burials be interpreted?	p. 222
Rethinking later medieval masculinity: the male body in death	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 298
List of contributors	p. 303
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