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Landmarks for the dead: exploring Anglo-Saxon mortuary geographies
Semple, Sarah Williams, Howard
Semple, Sarah
Williams, Howard
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2015-11-27
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To move forward with a robust framework for understanding early medieval mortuary geographies, scholars must escape the romantic dichotomy of regarding the early medieval dead as either confined to the dead pagan ‘communities’ situated on the periphery and borders of the living world, or safely bounded within churchyards under Christian pastoral care. While there is widespread recognition of the variability in early medieval burial sites and their spatial components, only a handful of studies have considered them as places of
memory within complex and evolving historic landscapes, despite evidence for rich overlapping and changing burial terrains across the period. This chapter offers a new introduction and framework for just such an approach to early medieval mortuary geography.
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Semple, S., & Williams, H. (2015). Landmarks for the dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon mortuary geographies. In M. Clegg Hyer & G. R. Owen-Crocker. (Eds). The Material culture of the built environment in the Anglo-Saxon world. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
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Liverpool University Press
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Book chapter exploring mortuary geography in the Anglo-Saxon world
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9781781382653