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Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England examines and recreates many of
the details of ordinary lives in early medieval England between the
5th and 11th centuries, exploring what we know as well as the
surprising gaps in our knowledge. Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England
covers daily life in England from the 5th through the 11th
centuries. These six centuries saw significant social, cultural,
religious, and ethnic upheavals, including the introduction of
Christianity, the creation of towns, the Viking invasions, the
invention of "Englishness," and the Norman Conquest. In the last 10
years, there have been significant new archaeological discoveries,
major advances in scientific archaeology, and new ways of thinking
about the past, meaning it is now possible to say much more about
everyday life during this time period than ever before. Drawing on
a combination of archaeological and textual evidence, including the
latest scientific findings from DNA and stable isotope analysis,
this book looks at the life course of the early medieval English
from the cradle to the grave, as well as how daily lives changed
over these centuries. Topics covered include maintenance
activities, education, play, commerce, trade, manufacturing,
fashion, travel, migration, warfare, health, and medicine. Takes an
interdisciplinary approach, using archaeological and textual
sources Supports the text with references to key sites, artifacts,
and documents Focuses on everyday life Reflects the subject
expertise of the author
Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon
texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of
physical evidence - settlements, cemeteries, artefacts,
environmental data, and standing buildings. This evidence has
confirmed some readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary
sources and challenged others. More recently, large-scale
excavations both in towns and in the countryside, the application
of computer methods to large bodies of data, new techniques for
site identification such as remote sensing, and new dating methods
have put archaeology at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon studies. The
Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, written by a team of experts
and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, will
both stimulate and support further investigation into those aspects
of Anglo-Saxon life and culture which archaeology has fundamentally
illuminated. It will prove an essential resourse for our
understanding of a society poised at the interface between
prehistory and history.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series
concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its
neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers
an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and
multi-disciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches
and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon
England but also its international context.
Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon
texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of
physical evidence-settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental
data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some
readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and
challenged others. More recently, large-scale excavations both in
towns and in the countryside, the application of computer methods
to large bodies of data, new techniques for site identification
such as remote sensing, and new dating methods have put archaeology
at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon studies. The Handbook of
Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, written by a team of experts and
presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, will both
stimulate and support further investigation into those aspects of
Anglo-Saxon life and culture which archaeology has fundamentally
illuminated. It will prove an essential resourse for our
understanding of a society poised at the interface between
prehistory and history.
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and
mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of
archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general
appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology,
history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art
history offers the most direct message to a wider audience. This
volume of 37 papers brings together a truly international group of
pre-eminent specialists in the field of Celtic art and Celtic
studies. It is a benchmark volume the like of which has not been
seen since the publication of Paul Jacobsthal's Early Celtic Art in
1944. The papers chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic
art and argue for novel approaches in discussions spanning the
whole of Continental Europe and the British Isles. This new body of
international scholarship will give the reader a sense of the
richness of the material and current debates. Artefacts of rich
form and decoration, which we might call art, provide a most
sensitive set of indicators of key areas of past societies, their
power, politics and transformations. With its broad geographical
scope, this volume offers a timely opportunity to re-assess
contacts, context, transmission and meaning in Celtic art for
understanding the development of European cultures, identities and
economies in pre- and proto-history. Essays in honour of Vincent
Megaw on his 80th birthday.
Early Anglo-Saxon England saw some of the most important elements
in the creation of modern England: the Germanic migrations after
the departure of the Romans and the introduction of Christianity in
the 7th century. While traditionally the early centuries of
Anglo-Saxon England have been disregarded as"'lost centuries,"
archaeological evidence, paired with the later written sources, can
reveal a complex and often sophisticated society. This period saw
the beginnings of urbanization, with the establishment of
market-places enabling the trade of local and exotic goods, and the
first schools were introduced in the 7th century.
Sally Crawford looks at how the Anglo-Saxons lived, from the
composition of an Anglo-Saxon family and how status was defined by
an individual's occupation, to the complexities of feasting and
drinking and how adults and children found entertainment.
Six papers which reassess medieval medicine. Contents: Rage
Possession: A Cognitive Science Approach to Early English Demon
Possession (Kirsten C. Uszkalo); Outlawry and Moral Perversion in
Old Norse Society (Anne Irene Riis); Hermaphroditism in the western
Middle Ages: Physicians, Lawyers and the Intersexed Person (Irina
Metzler); The nadir of Western Medicine? Texts, contexts and
practice in Anglo-Saxon England (Sally Crawford); This should not
to be shown to a gentile: MedicoMagical Texts in Medieval
Franco-German Jewish Rabbinic Manuscripts (Ephraim Shoham-Steiner);
Asclepius, Biographical Dictionaries, and the transmission of
science in the Medieval Muslim World (Keren Abbou Hershkovits).
Contents: 1) Children, childhood and society: an introduction
(Sally Crawford and Gillian Shepherd); 2) Past, present and future
in the study of Roman childhood (Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence and
Ville Vuolanto); 3) The pitter-patter of tiny feet in clay: aspects
of the liminality of childhood in the ancient Near East (Alasdair
Livingstone); 4) The child's cache at Assiros Toumba, Macedonia
(Diana Wardle and K. A. Wardle); 5) Transitions to adulthood in
early Icelandic society (Chris Callow); 6) Had they no shame?
Martial, Status and Roman sexual attitudes towards slave children
(Niall McKeown); 7) Vital resources, ideal images and virtual
lives: children in Early Bronze Age funerary ritual (Paul Garwood);
8) Companions, co-incidences or chattels? Children in the early
Anglo-Saxon multiple burial ritual (Sally Crawford); 9) Poor little
rich kids? Status and selection in Archaic Western Greece (Gillian
Shepherd).
Real understanding of past societies is not possible without
including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in
the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past
societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating
children and childhood. However marginal the traces of children's
bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological
evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most
astonishing places and spaces. The archaeology of childhood is one
of the most exciting and challenging areas for new discovery about
past societies. Children are part of every human society, but
childhood is a cultural construct. Each society develops its own
idea about what a childhood should be, what children can or should
do, and how they are trained to take their place in the world.
Children also play a part in creating the archaeological record
itself. In this volume, experts from around the world ask questions
about childhood - thresholds of age and growth, childhood in the
material culture, the death of children, and the intersection of
the childhood and the social, economic, religious, and political
worlds of societies in the past.
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the
cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe.
However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in
classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental
studies - were forced to flee to England following the rise of the
Nazi regime, Germany's loss became Oxford's gain. From the
mid-1930s onwards, Oxford could accurately be described as an 'ark
of knowledge' of western civilization: a place where ideas about
art, culture, and history could be rescued, developed, and
disseminated freely. The city's history as a place of refuge for
scientists who were victims of Nazi oppression is by now familiar,
but the story of its role as a sanctuary for cultural heritage,
though no less important, has received much less attention. In this
volume, the impact of Oxford as a shelter, a meeting point, and a
centre of thought in the arts and humanities specifically is
addressed, by looking both at those who sought refuge there and
stayed, and those whose lives intersected with Oxford at crucial
moments before and during the war. Although not every great refugee
can be discussed in detail in this volume, this study offers an
introduction to the unique conjunction of place, people, and time
that shaped Western intellectual history, exploring how the meeting
of minds enabled by libraries, publishing houses, and the
University allowed Oxford's refugee scholars to have a profound and
lasting impact on the development of British culture. Drawing on
oral histories, previously unpublished letters, and archives, it
illuminates and interweaves both personal and global histories to
demonstrate how, for a short period during the war, Oxford brought
together some of the greatest minds of the age to become the
custodians of a great European civilization.
In addition to its unshakeable position on academic History
curricula, Anglo-Saxon England remains popular with the general
public. However, despite numerous specialist volumes on the
political and economic history of the period, there are no books
currently on the market which offer an overview of Anglo-Saxon
daily life. This book fills that gap, covering a great range of
common life experiences of individuals in England, AD c.
450-c.1066, including domestic and family life, work and leisure,
education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and
superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment,
ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, slavery,
urban life, and political life for men, women and children.
Archaeological evidence gives a dramatic picture of social
organization in Anglo-Saxon towns, and sources such as wills
provide insight into the way families were structured and
organized. Evidence in the law codes and literature shows how
Anglo-Saxons experienced childhood, youth, marriage, adulthood,
parenthood and old age; how they were educated and engaged in
trades, and what they did in their leisure time. Archaeological and
documentary evidence, including pictorial representations in
sculpture and manuscripts, give a vivid picture of Anglo-Saxon food
and dress, and also of the military and governmental forces of
Anglo-Saxon England. Religion was an important part of daily life,
and so was crime, justice, punishment and slavery. Indeed, the
struggle to survive meant that health and sickness were crucial
everyday concerns. All these aspects of daily life are examined in
Sally Crawford's book, creating a rich picture of ordinary, but
complex, lifein Anglo-Saxon England.
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