Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries

by Anthony Gibson

Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries presents a corpus and discussion of a group of Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries. Seventy-one boxes, some incomplete or fragmentary, have been recorded from forty-nine sites across Anglo-Saxon England. A typology, material specification, drawings, design...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789694086
• ISBN13: 9781789694086
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 16.38 lbs.