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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Boydell Press
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Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Sutton Publishing
This account of death and burial in Anglo-Saxon England offers insights into the society and customs of the Anglo-Saxons, their way of life and their understand
Language: en
Pages: 461
Pages: 461
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-18 - Publisher: BRILL
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
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book ch
Language: en
Pages: 462
Pages: 462
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge
Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence