Death and memory in early medieval Britain

How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? This innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration in the period c. 400-1100AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williams, Howard, 1972- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2010
Colección:Cambridge studies in archaeology
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Death, memory and material culture; 2. Objects of memory; 3. Remembering through the body; 4. Graves as mnemonic compositions; 5. Monuments and memory; 6. Death and landscape; 7. Remembering, forgetting and the mortuary context.