| Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England Contributor(s): Thompson, Victoria (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843837315 ISBN-13: 9781843837312 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Social Science | Death & Dying |
| Dewey: 909.07 |
| Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.95 lbs) 246 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 not only the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them. |