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Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages
A collection of essays exploring the interpretation of medieval identities through burial data.
War and Violence in the Anglo-Saxon World
In this investigation of warfare and society in the Anglo-Saxon world, Heinrich Harke reconsiders the historical evidence and offers a fresh interpretation of the role of warriors and their way of life during the early medieval period. He puts the subject into a broad western and North European context and he draws on archaeological and documentary records of warfare to give graphic, thought-provoking insights into the Anglo-Saxon world in the centuries after the collapse of the Roman empire. His wide-ranging, illustrated account of this extraordinary, often misunderstood era should be of keen interest to everyone who is intrigued by ancient warfare, by the place of the warrior in society and by the Anglo-Saxons in particular.
Archaeology, Ideology and Society
This volume explores the relationship between archaeology, politics and society in Germany from the later 19th to the end of the 20th century. The contributions discuss key aspects of this relationship in their historical context, beginning with the triumph of national archaeology over universalist anthropology, continuing with the exploitation of archaeology by the Nazi and Communist regimes, the widespread collaboration by archaeologists, and the political and intellectual aftermath of these two episodes. Other contributions raise no less important questions about the role of archaeology in democratic society, by exploring issues such as university teaching, public attitudes, gender, and research abroad. Contributors from outside Germany put this experience into a contemporary, European and international context.
Early Anglo-Saxon Shields
Nearly one-quarter of the males in early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were buried with a shield, yet shields have not received as much scholarly attention as the less common sword. In this volume Dickinson and Harke combine their individual researches to provide a full discussion of the early Anglo-Saxon shield. It includes a typological framework and addresses the issues of dating and distribution, technology and function, and the place of the shield in Anglo-Saxon burial ritual.
Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain
Social identity is a concept od increasing importance in the social sciences. Here, the concept is applied to the often atheoretical realm of medieval studies. Each contributor focuses on a particular topic of early medieval identity - ethnicity, national identity, social location, subjectivity/personhood, political organization, kiship, the body, gender, age, proximity/regionality, memory and ideological systems. The result is a pioneering vision of medieval social identity and a challenge to some of the received general wisdoms about this period.
Burial & Society
These papers encompass the theoretical and methodological aspects of burial archaeology. The contributors to the book are concerned with several trends in modern archaeology, such as: computer analyses for the study of chronological, territorial and social structure; the current re-analysis of old excavations brought on by a renewed interest in artefacts; and the growing importance of the study of family groups, social organisation and political structures. Archaeology today recognises research in burials for its broad portrait of society: the evidence which graves provide can clarify regional, ethnic and political differences, as well as the economic class of the individual. The evidence within a burial site clarifies the ritual life within a culture. Also discussed in the book is foreign influences during the early-medieval and Viking periods, and the impact of Christianity on burial practices.
Settlement Types and Settlement Patterns in the West Hallstatt Province
"Revised version of a B. Litt. (M. Litt.) thesis accepted by the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, University of Oxford, in 1978"--Pref.
Archaeology: The Basics
This second edition from our successful Basics series presents another chance to delve into this increasingly popular subject. Fully updated, Archaeology: The Basics has been revised to reflect growth in areas such as material culture, human evolution and the political use of the past. Lively and engaging, some of the key questions answered include: What are the basic concepts of archaeology? How and what do we know about people and objects from the past? What makes a good explanation in archaeology? How do we know where to look? From everyday examples to the more obscure, this is essential reading for all students, independent archaeologists and indeed all those who want to know more about archaeological thought, history and practice. A piece of broken pottery will never seem the same again.
A Commonwealth of the People
Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.
