Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages

Edited by Duncan Sayer and Howard Williams

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe

Cloth $110.00 ISBN: 9780859898317 Published March 2010 For sale in North and South America only

Paper $45.00 ISBN: 9780859898799 Published June 2013 For sale in North and South America only

Building on Heinrich Härke’s influential research on burial archaeology and early medieval migrations, this book sets a new agenda for mortuary archaeology. Using archaeological data, the essays explore how mortuary practices have served in the makeup and expression of medieval social identities. Applying explicit theoretical perspectives to case studies based on a range of European sites, this bookfills the need for a volume that provides accessible material to students, engages with current debates in mortuary archaeology’s methods and theories, and explores the interpretation of medieval social identities through burial data.