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Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex
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Kate Mees
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2019
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Multi-disciplinary investigation of Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions.
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 environmentaland social milieu, reveal much about this transformational era.
This book offers a pioneering exploration of the ways in which the cultural and physical environment influenced funerary traditions during the period c. AD 450-850, in the region which came to form the leading Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. This was a diverse landscape rich in ancient remains, in the form of imposing earthworks, enigmatic megaliths and vestiges of Roman occupation. Employing archaeological evidence, complemented by toponymic and documentary sources and elucidated through landscape analysis, the author argues that particular man-made and natural features were consciously selected as foci for funerary events and ritual practice, becoming integral to manifestations of identity and power in early medieval society.
Kate Mees is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
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 environmentaland social milieu, reveal much about this transformational era.
This book offers a pioneering exploration of the ways in which the cultural and physical environment influenced funerary traditions during the period c. AD 450-850, in the region which came to form the leading Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. This was a diverse landscape rich in ancient remains, in the form of imposing earthworks, enigmatic megaliths and vestiges of Roman occupation. Employing archaeological evidence, complemented by toponymic and documentary sources and elucidated through landscape analysis, the author argues that particular man-made and natural features were consciously selected as foci for funerary events and ritual practice, becoming integral to manifestations of identity and power in early medieval society.
Kate Mees is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Note on Period Terminology and Other Definitions
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Introduction: Perspectives, Approaches and Context
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1 Monument Reuse and the Inherited Landscape
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2 Topography and Ritual Life
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3 ‘Britons and Saxons’?
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4 Land Use, Territoriality and Social Change
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5 The Church and the Funerary Landscape
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Conclusions
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Appendix Gazetteer of burial sites in the study area, c. AD 450–850
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Bibliography
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Index
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