Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84383-731-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 246 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Anglo-Saxon Studies

Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead.

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 notonly the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them.

Victoria Thompson is Lecturer in the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Thompson, Victoria
Victoria Thompson is Lecturer in the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Victoria Thompson is Lecturer in the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.