The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death: Burial Rites in Early EnglandAn up-to-date and accessible account of death and burial in Anglo-Saxon England. The book offers insights into the society and customs of the Anglo-Saxons and provides clues about their way of life and their understanding of the world. Through a detailed study of cemeteries, gravegoods and human remains, the author seeks to offer a review of this emotive subject. Samantha Lucy looks first at the background to the evidence and at prehistoric and Roman traditions. She then considers the discovery and excavation of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and at the rites and practices of death, which included cremation and burial. She also describes what we can learn from the layout and siting of the cemeteries themselves, and demonstrates that the surviving evidence - in particular changes in costume and gravegoods - can be used to show how Anglo-Saxon customs of burial developed over 400 years. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
DATING BURIALS AND GRAVEGOODS IN ANGLOSAXON CEMETERIES | 19 |
INHUMATION BURIAL PRACTICE | 81 |
CREMATION BURIAL PRACTICE | 107 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
adult Anglian Anglo-Saxon cemeteries animal annular brooches areas argued assemblages associated barrow beads bone Bronze Age brooch types buckles burial rite buried Cambridgeshire chapter chronological claw beaker contained continental Cook & Dacre costume cremation cemeteries cruciform brooches decoration Dickinson 1976 disc brooches Dover Buckland early Anglo-Saxon eastern Britain eighth centuries England ethnic evidence Evison example excavated Faussett female fifth and sixth Finglesham furnished burial Geake Germanic grave-goods graves groups Hawkes headplate Hines historical Holywell Row ibid identified inhumations interpreted jewellery Kent Kentish late Roman later sixth Lechlade Leeds Lethbridge Lincolnshire Little Wilbraham male Martin Carver material culture McKinley 1994a Meaney Medieval Archaeology mound Myres Norfolk ornament pendants Portway pottery pyre Quoit Brooch remains Roach Smith Romano-British saucer brooches Saxon seen settlement seventh century sixth century skeletal skeleton sleeve-clasps Spong Hill square-headed brooches Style Suffolk suggested Sutton Hoo vessels weapon burial West Heslerton Yorkshire
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death: Burial Rites in Early England |
| Author | Sam Lucy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Sutton, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 14, 2008 |
| ISBN | 075092103X, 9780750921039 |
| Length | 210 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Great Britain / General |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |