Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon EnglandCondition: NewISBN-10: 1843837315EAN: 9781843837312ISBN: 9781843837312Publisher: The Boydell PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/19/2012Description: Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead.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 notonly the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them. Victoria Thompson is Lecturer in the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Victoria ThompsonGenre: HistoryBook Series: Anglo-Saxon StudiesTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesItem Weight: 400gRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England
Title: Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN-10: 1843837315
EAN: 9781843837312
ISBN: 9781843837312
Release Date: 07/19/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Death & Dying, Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), Judaism / History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Customs & Traditions, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Author: Victoria Thompson
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Format: Trade Paperback
