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The Bone Chests (Hardcover)
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The Bone Chests (Hardcover)
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From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a
gripping new history of the making of England as a nation, told
through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in
Winchester Cathedral. In December 1642, during the Civil War,
Parliamentarian troops stormed the magnificent Winchester
Cathedral, intent on destruction. Reaching the choir, its beating
heart, the soldiers searched out ten beautifully decorated wooden
chests resting high up on the stone screens. Those chests contained
some of England’s most venerated, ancient remains: The bones of
eight kings, including William Rufus and Cnut the Great – the
only Scandinavian king to rule England and a North Sea Empire;
three bishops; and a formidable queen, Emma of Normandy. These were
the very people who witnessed and orchestrated the creation of the
kingdom of Wessex in the 7th century; who lived through the
creation of England as a unified country in response to the Viking
threat; and who were part and parcel of the Norman conquest. On
that day, the soldiers smashed several chests to the ground, using
the bones as missiles to shatter the cathedral’s stained glass
windows. Afterwards, the clergy scrambled to collect the scattered
remains. In 2014, the six remaining chests were reopened. A team of
forensic archaeologists, using the latest scientific methods,
attempted to identify the contents: They discovered an elaborate
jumble of bones, including the remains of two forgotten princes. In
The Bone Chests, Cat Jarman builds on this evidence to untangle the
stories of the people within. It is an extraordinary and sometimes
tragic tale, and a story of transformation. Why these bones? Why
there? Can we ever really identify them? In a palimpsest narrative
that runs through more than a millennium of British history, it
tells the story of both the seekers and the sought, of those who
protected the bones and those who spurned them; and of the methods
used to investigate.
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