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Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
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Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates
contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead. Pre-Conquest
attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications
for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the
Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been
comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In
her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in
the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills,
poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous
ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon
society. Her study also takes in grave monuments, showing in
particular how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the ninth to the
eleventh centuries may indicate notonly the status, but also the
religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made
them. Victoria Thompson is Lecturer in the Centre for Nordic
Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.
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