Anglo-Saxon deviant burial customs
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the ear
Electronic books
1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations
9780191567650, 9780199544554, 0191567655, 0199544557
430942922
Sources, approaches, and contexts
Burials, bodies, and beheadings : interpretation and discovery
Social deviants in a pagan society : the fifth to seventh centuries
Social deviants in a Christian world : the seventh to eleventh centuries
The geography of deviant burial in Anglo-Saxon England
Themes and trajectories : the wider social context