Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages

By: Duncan Sayer (Editor), Howard Williams (Editor)

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Hardcover | 27 November 2009 | Edition Number 2

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The research of archaeologist and scholar Heinrich Harke has highly influenced contemporary theories of mortuary archaeology and our interpretations of historical burial practices. This volume builds on his groundbreaking work on the relationship between the theory and practice of burial archaeology, exploring the role mortuary rituals played in the creation and expression of medieval social identities. Applying theoretical perspectives to case studies from a range of European finds--from Scandinavia to the British Isles, Southern France, and the Black Sea--the contributors engage with themes as diverse as migration, ethnicity, kinship, masculinity, and perceptions of landscape in this accessible contribution to the emerging field of death studies.

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List of figures	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
'Halls of mirrors': death and identity in medieval archaeology	p. 1
Working with the dead	p. 23
Beowulf and British prehistory	p. 46
Fighting wars, gaining status: on the rise of Germanicelites	p. 64
'Hunnic' modified skulls: physical appearance, identity and the transformative nature of migrations	p. 64
Rituals to free the spirit - or what the cremation pyre told	p. 81
Barrows, roads and ridges - or where to bury the dead? The choice of burial grounds in late Iron Age Scandinavia	p. 104
Anglo-Saxon DNA?	p. 123
Laws, funerals and cemetery organisation: the seventh-century Kentish family	p. 141
On display: envisioning the early Anglo-Saxon dead	p. 170
Variation in the British burial rite: AD 400-700	p. 207
Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-AD 700 burials be interpreted?	p. 222
Rethinking later medieval masculinity: the male body in death	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 298
List of contributors	p. 303
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