Bodies, Beings, and the Multiple Burial Rite of the Western Viking - Worl

This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora.

List of contents

1. Peopling the Viking Age; 2. A Tale of the Ordinary and the Other; 3. Multiple Burial across the Viking World; 4. In the Company of Humans; 5. In the Company of Animals; 6. In the Company of Things; 7. Viking Age Bodies and Beings; 8. Catalogue of Multiple Burials

About the author

Claire F. Ratican obtained her PhD in Viking Age burial practices from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests focus primarily on Viking Age mortuary behaviour in Britain and Scandinavia, particularly traditions of multiple burial, yet also extend to concepts of personhood and its intersection with archaeologies of relationality, the ontological turn and post-humanist perspectives.

Summary

This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Claire F. Ratican
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032216836
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221683-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Empires & historical states, Archaeology by period / region, Viking / Norse civilisations