Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the interpretation of medieval identities through burial data.
Trade ReviewAn engaging and stimulating collection of value for the serious student of the subject.
Christopher Scull, British Archaeology, May/June 2010 * British Archaeology, May/June 2010 *
Table of Contents
- Preface – Duncan Sayer and Howard Williams
- 1. 'Halls of mirrors': death and identity in medieval archaeology - Howard Williams and Duncan Sayer
- 2. Working with the dead - Robert Chapman
- 3. Beowulf and British prehistory - Richard Bradley
- 4. Fighting wars, gaining status: on the rise of Germanic elites - Stefan Burmeister
- 5. ‘Hunnic’ modified skulls: physical appearance, identity and the transformative nature of migrations -
- Susanne Hakenbeck
- 6. Rituals to free the spirit – or what the cremation pyre told - Karen Høilund Nielsen
- 7.Barrows, roads and ridges – or where to bury the dead? The choice of burial grounds in late Iron-Age Scandinavia - Eva S. Thäte
- 8. Anglo-Saxon DNA? - Catherine Hills
- 9. Laws, funerals and cemetery organisation: the seventh-century Kentish family - Duncan Sayer
- 10. On display – envisioning the early Anglo-Saxon dead - Howard Williams
- 11. Variation in the British burial rite: AD 400–700 - David Petts
- 12. Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-AD 700 burials be interpreted? - Grenville Astill
- 13. Rethinking later medieval masculinity: the male body in death - Roberta Gilchrist
- Bibilography
- Index
