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Author:   Andrew Reynolds (Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9780198723158

ISBN 10:   0198723156
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   30 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Sources, Approaches, and Contexts 2: Burials, Bodies, and Beheadings: Interpretation and Discovery 3: Social Deviants in a Pagan Society: the Fifth to Seventh Centuries 4: Social Deviants in a Christian World: the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries 5: The Geography of Deviant Burial in Anglo-Saxon England 6: Themes and Trajectories: the Wider Social Context Appendix 1. A handlist of Anglo-Saxon law-codes prescribing capital punishment, mutilation, and burial in unconsecrated ground Appendix 2. A handlist of early Anglo-Saxon deviant burials Appendix 3. A handlist of select burials from execution cemeteries Appendix 4. A handlist of execution and related sites, and other burial places in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds Bibliography

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This scholarly and accessible study, which recognises the stark and often brutal reality of social power and judicial process, is recommended to anyone with an interest in early English society or the evolution of the English landscape. Chris Scull, British Archaeology

This scholarly and accessible study, which recognises the stark and often brutal reality of social power and judicial process, is recommended to anyone with an interest in early English society or the evolution of the English landscape. * Chris Scull, British Archaeology *

`This scholarly and accessible study, which recognises the stark and often brutal reality of social power and judicial process, is recommended to anyone with an interest in early English society or the evolution of the English landscape.' Chris Scull, British Archaeology

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Andrew Reynolds is Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

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