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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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