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Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England

By Victoria Thompson

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Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England

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Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. Her study also takes in grave monuments, showing in particular how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the ninth to the eleventh centuries may indicate not only the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2012-07-19
Publication Date:
2012-07-19
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843837315
ISBN13:
9781843837312
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
383 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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