Death and Memory in Early Medieval Brita

Informationen zum Autor Howard Williams is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on death and memory in past societies and has co-directed archaeological fieldwork at early medieval burial sites in Britain and Sweden. Klappentext Addresses the commemorative functions of funerary ritual between 400 1100 AD using archaeological remains as its evidence base. Zusammenfassung An innovative application of theories of memory and material culture to an early historic society, this 2006 book uses the early medieval cemetery in Britain between 400–1100 AD as a rich and complex data set, addressing the commemorative functions of funerary ritual using archaeological remains as its evidence base. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Preface; 1. Death, memory and material culture; 2. Objects of memory; 3. Remembering through the body; 4. Graves as mnemonic compositions; 5. Monuments and memory; 6. Death and landscape; 7. Remembering, forgetting and the mortuary context; references; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Williams, Williams Howard
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521142250
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14225-0
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Archaeolo; Cambridge Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, British Isles, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval European archaeology