Description
Book SynopsisAn innovative application of theories of memory and material culture to an early historic society, this 2006 book uses the early medieval cemetery in Britain between 4001100 AD as a rich and complex data set, addressing the commemorative functions of funerary ritual using archaeological remains as its evidence base.
Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'It is one of the great strengths of his book that it treats the whole of mainland Britain (and the isle of Man) on an even footing and over more than half a millennium bringing out this variation as well as some common themes and perhaps beliefs … for 50 years prehistorians have, perhaps rightly, deplored the intellectual simplicity of the infant discipline of medieval archaeology. This is one of the books that will make them rethink that.' British Archaeology
Review of the hardback: 'Howard William's book should launch a mature, careful and temperate debate …' Journal of Medieval Archaeology
Review of the hardback: '… nuanced and insightful … thought-provoking …' Archaeological Review from Cambridge
Review of the hardback: 'Howard William's excellent book is thus greatly to be welcomed as the first extended survey of how the dead were remembered in early medieval Britain.' Antiquity
Table of ContentsList of figures; Preface; 1. Death, memory and material culture; 2. Objects of memory; 3. Remembering through the body; 4. Graves as mnemonic compositions; 5. Monuments and memory; 6. Death and landscape; 7. Remembering, forgetting and the mortuary context; references; Index.
