Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages.

Sayer, Duncan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-2769-1281 and Williams, Howard (2009) Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages. Exeter Studies in medieval Europe . University of Liverpool Press, Exeter. ISBN 9780859898317

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Abstract

This book sets a new agenda for mortuary archaeology. Applying explicit theoretical perspectives to case studies based on a range of European sites (from Scandinavia to Britain, Southern France to the Black Sea), Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages fulfils the need for a volume that provides accessible material to students and engages with current debates in mortuary archaeology’s methods and theories

Contents

Section title
Section author
Page
'Halls of mirrors’: death and identity in medieval archaeology
Howard Williams and Duncan Sayer
1
Working with the dead
Robert Chapman
23
Beowulf and British prehistory
Richard Bradley
38
Fighting wars, gaining status: on the rise of Germanic elites
Stefan Burmeister
46
‘Hunnic’ modified skulls: physical appearance, identity and the transformative nature of migrations
Susanne Hakenbeck
54
Rituals to free the spirit – or what the cremation pyre told
Karen Høilund Nielsen
81
Barrows, roads and ridges – or where to bury the dead? The choice of burial grounds in late Iron Age Scandinavia
Eva S. Thäte
104
Anglo-Saxon DNA
Catherine Hills
123
Laws, funerals and cemetery organisation: the seventh-century Kentish family
Duncan Sayer
141
On display: envisioning the early Anglo-Saxon dead
Howard Williams
170
Variation in the British burial rite: ad 400–700
David Petts
207
Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-ad 700 burials be interpreted?
Grenville Astill
222
Rethinking later medieval masculinity: the male body in death
Roberta Gilchrist
236

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