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Author Lee, Christina

Title Feasting the dead : food and drink in Anglo-Saxon burial rituals / Christina Lee
Published Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages) : illustrations
Series Anglo-Saxon studies
Anglo-Saxon studies.
Contents Eorđan wæstmas : a feast for the living -- Bare bones : animals in cemeteries -- Pots, buckets, and cauldrons : the inventory of feasting -- Last orders? -- The grateful dead : feasting and memory -- Feasting between the margins
Summary The book examines the place of food and feasting in funerary rituals from the earliest period to the eleventh century, considering the changes and transformations that occurred during this time, drawing on a wide range of sources, from archaeological evidence to the existing texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anglo-Saxons -- Funeral customs and rites -- England
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- To 1500
Food habits -- England -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Ritus
Food habits.
Bestattung
Trinken
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Angelsachsen
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
Subject England.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Essen
Angelsachsen.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846155420
1846155428