Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain write by Howard Williams. This book was released on 2006. Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addresses the commemorative functions of funerary ritual between 400OCo1100 AD using archaeological remains as its evidence base."
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain write by Howard Williams. This book was released on 2006-08-31. Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400–1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological discoveries, Howard Williams presents a fresh interpretation of the significance of portable artefacts, the body, structures, monuments and landscapes in early medieval mortuary practices. He argues that materials and spaces were used in ritual performances that served as 'technologies of remembrance', practices that created shared 'social' memories intended to link past, present and future. Through the deployment of material culture, early medieval societies were therefore selectively remembering and forgetting their ancestors and their history. Throwing light on an important aspect of medieval society, this book is essential reading for archaeologists and historians with an interest in the early medieval period.
Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald
Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald write by Stephen Baxter. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Leading British, American and continental scholars - his colleagues, friends and pupils - here bear witness to his seminal influence by presenting a collection of studies devoted to the key themes that dominated his work: kingship; law and society; ethnic, religious, national and linguistic identities; the power of images, pictorial or poetic, in shaping political and religious institutions. Closely mirroring the interests of their honorand, the collection not only underlines Patrick Wormald's enormous contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, but graphically demonstrates his belief that early medieval England and Anglo-Saxon law could only be understood against a background of research into contemporary developments in the nearby Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Frankish kingdoms. He would have been well pleased, therefore, that this volume should make such significant advances in our understanding of the world of Bede, of the dynasty of King Alfred, and also of the workings of English law between the seventh and the twelfth century. Moreover he would have been particularly delighted at the rich comparisons and contrasts with Celtic societies offered here and with the series of fundamental reassessments of aspects of Carolingian Francia. Above all these studies present fundamental reinterpretations, not only of published written sources and their underlying manuscript evidence, but also of the development of some of the dominant ideas of that era. In both their scope and the quality of the scholarship, the collection stands as a fitting tribute to the work and life of Patrick Wormald and his lasting contribution to early medieval studies.
Death in Medieval England
Death in Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in Medieval England write by Dawn M. Hadley. This book was released on 2001. Death in Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on a cross-section of evidence--excavated cemeteries, sculpture and funerary monuments, documentary sources, and iconography--and using a series of regional case studies, this book explores the changing attitudes to death and the commemoration of the dead during the medieval period. The book addresses a number of themes, including the changing location of burial, the evidence for burial rite and funerals, the great wealth of funerary monuments and other forms of ecclesiastical patronage, the nature of the funerary industry, and the relationship of the dead to the living community.
Dealing With The Dead
Dealing With The Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dealing With The Dead write by . This book was released on 2017-12-18. Dealing With The Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its finality. Whether they were commoners, clergy, aristocrats, or kings, the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of their communities long after they were laid to rest in their graves. From stories of revenants bringing pleas from Purgatory to the living, to the practical uses and regulation of burial space; from the tradition of the ars moriendi, to the depiction of death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members. Contributors are Jill Clements, Libby Escobedo, Hilary Fox, Sonsoles Garcia, Stephen Gordon, Melissa Herman, Mary Leech, Nikki Malain, Kathryn Maud, Justin Noetzel, Anthony Perron, Martina Saltamacchia, Thea Tomaini, Wendy Turner, and Christina Welch
