Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries - Kinship, Community and Identity (Hardcover)

This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence. 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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Duncan Sayer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-3556-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Medieval European archaeology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
LSN:	1-5261-3556-6
Barcode:	9781526135568

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