Anglo-Saxon deviant burial customs
By: Andrew Reynolds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780199544554
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons -- Funeral customs and rites; Anglo-Saxons -- Social life and customs; Deviant behavior -- England -- History; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- To 1500; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066; England -- Social life and customs -- To 1066; England -- Moral conditions -- History; England -- Social conditions -- To 1066
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sources, approaches, and contexts; title: Burials, bodies, and beheadings : interpretation and discovery; title: Social deviants in a pagan society : the fifth to seventh centuries; title: Social deviants in a Christian world : the seventh to eleventh centuries; title: The geography of deviant burial in Anglo-Saxon England; title: Themes and trajectories : the wider social context.