Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries - Kinship, Community and Identity

This book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were pluralistic, multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories.

List of contents

1 Negotiating early Anglo-Saxon cemetery space
2 The syntax of cemetery space
3 Mortuary metre
4 The grammar of graves
5 Intonation on the individual
6 Early Anglo-Saxon community
Afterword
Index

About the author

Duncan Sayer is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

Product details

• Authors: Duncan Sayer, Sayer Duncan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781526135568
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3556-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Social Archaeology and Material Worlds; Social Archaeology and Materia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Archaeology by period / region, Sociology: Death & Dying, Medieval European archaeology, Anglo-Saxon period (c 400 to c 1066)