Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
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REYNOLDS ANDREW
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Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
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Oxford University Press
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9780191567650
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1
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CHF 37.90
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Sonstiges
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English
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.