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The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
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Examination and analysis of one of the most important artefacts of
Anglo-Saxon society, the cruciform brooch, setting it in a wider
context. Cruciform brooches were large and decorative items of
jewellery, frequently used to pin together women's garments in
pre-Christian northwest Europe. Characterised by the strange
bestial visages that project from the feet of thesedress and cloak
fasteners, cruciform brooches were especially common in eastern
England during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. For this reason,
archaeologists have long associated them with those shadowy tribal
originators of the English: the Angles of the Migration period.
This book provides a multifaceted, holistic and contextual analysis
of more than 2,000 Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches. It offers a
critical examination of identity in Early Medievalsociety,
suggesting that the idea of being Anglian in post-Roman Britain was
not a primordial, tribal identity transplanted from northern
Germany, but was at least partly forged through the repeated,
prevalent use of dress and material culture. Additionally, the
particular women that were buried with cruciform brooches, and
indeed their very funerals, played an important role in the
process. These ideas are explored through a new typology and an
updated chronology for cruciform brooches, alongside considerations
of their production, exchange and use. The author also examines
their geographical distribution through time and their most common
archaeological contexts: the inhumation and cremation cemeteries of
early Anglo-Saxon England. Dr Toby Martin is a British Academy
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford
University.
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