Burial, landscape and identity in early Medieval Wessex /

Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmental and social milieu, reveal much about this transformational era. This...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mees, Kate (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2019.
Colección:Anglo-Saxon studies ; 35.
Temas:
Romans > England > Wessex.
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Wessex.
Burial > England > Wessex > History.
Romains > Angleterre > Wessex.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Angleterre > Wessex.
Sépulture > Angleterre > Wessex > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Burial
Classical antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Romans
Wessex (England) > Antiquities, Roman.
England > Wessex
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Note on Period Terminology and Other Definitions; Introduction: Perspectives, Approaches and Context; 1 Monument Reuse and the Inherited Landscape; 2 Topography and Ritual Life; 3 'Britons and Saxons'?; 4 Land Use, Territoriality and Social Change; 5 The Church and the Funerary Landscape; Conclusions; Appendix: Gazetteer of burial sites in the study area, c. AD 450-850; Bibliography; Index

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