Early anglo-saxon cemeteries: kinship, community and identity
Auteur :
Sayer, Duncan
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781526135568
Date de publication :
24 nov. 2020
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
649 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. -- .