Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

by Andrew Reynolds

Book Overview

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199544557
• ISBN13: 9780199544554
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.7"