{"product_id":"mortuary-practices-and-social-identities-in-the-middle-ages-9780859898317","title":"Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays exploring the interpretation of medieval identities through burial data.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging and stimulating collection of value for the serious student of the subject.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher Scull, \u003ci\u003eBritish Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e, May\/June 2010\u003c\/b\u003e * British Archaeology, May\/June 2010 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface – Duncan Sayer and Howard Williams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. 'Halls of mirrors': death and identity in medieval archaeology - Howard Williams and Duncan Sayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Working with the dead - Robert Chapman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Beowulf and British prehistory - Richard Bradley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Fighting wars, gaining status: on the rise of Germanic elites - Stefan Burmeister\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. ‘Hunnic’ modified skulls: physical appearance, identity and the transformative nature of migrations -\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSusanne Hakenbeck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Rituals to free the spirit – or what the cremation pyre told - Karen Høilund Nielsen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7.Barrows, roads and ridges – or where to bury the dead? The choice of burial grounds in late Iron-Age Scandinavia - Eva S. Thäte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Anglo-Saxon DNA? - Catherine Hills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Laws, funerals and cemetery organisation: the seventh-century Kentish family - Duncan Sayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. On display – envisioning the early Anglo-Saxon dead - Howard Williams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Variation in the British burial rite: AD 400–700 - David Petts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-AD 700 burials be interpreted? - Grenville Astill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Rethinking later medieval masculinity: the male body in death - Roberta Gilchrist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibilography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038923686231,"sku":"9780859898317","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859898317.jpg?v=1750941954","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mortuary-practices-and-social-identities-in-the-middle-ages-9780859898317","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}