Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs (Medieval History and Archaeology)

by Andrew Reynolds (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

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  Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Burials of 'deviants' show clear development in this period, moving from locally determined practice in the pre-Christian era, to formal execution cemeteries imposed as kingdoms were consolidated from the seventh century.