Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Burials of 'deviants' show clear development in this period, moving from locally determined practice in the pre-Christian era, to formal execution cemeteries imposed as kingdoms were consolidated from the seventh century.

Summary

Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Burials of 'deviants' show clear development in this period, moving from locally determined practice in the pre-Christian era, to formal execution cemeteries imposed as kingdoms were consolidated from the seventh century.

Additional text

This scholarly and accessible study, which recognises the stark and often brutal reality of social power and judicial process, is recommended to anyone with an interest in early English society or the evolution of the English landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Reynolds, Andrew (Reader in Medieval Archaeology Reynolds
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2014
• EAN: 9780198723158
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872315-8
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Medieval History and Archaeology; Medieval History and Archaeolo
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity