ISBN:
9781846152436
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
393
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Geschichte 449-1485
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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Geschichte
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval / England
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Anglo-Saxons / Funeral customs and rites
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Anglo-Saxons / Social life and customs
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Altenglisch
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Mittelenglisch
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Bestattung
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Wortfeld
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Großbritannien
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Great Britain / History / Medieval period, 1066-1485
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England
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Mittelenglisch
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Wortfeld
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Bestattung
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Geschichte
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Altenglisch
;
Wortfeld
;
Bestattung
;
Geschichte
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England
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Bestattung
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Geschichte 449-1485
Abstract:
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. VICTORIA THOMPSON undertook her postgraduate work in English and Medieval Studies at the University of York and currently lectures in medieval history for New York University's London Program
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
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Dying and death in a complicated world
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Dying with decency
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The body under siege in life and death
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The gravestone, the grave and the Wyrm
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Judgement on Earth and in Heaven
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