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The Use of Grave-goods in Conversion-period England, C.600-c.850

Helen Geake

出版	British Archaeological Reports, 1997
主題	History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN	08605491789780860549178
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vGtnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This study comprises a descriptive analysis of the entire range of Anglo-Saxon grave goods and an exploration of their causes and meanings from the 7th and 8th centuries, a time when kingdoms went through far-reaching changes in their ideologies, trade relationships and social structures. The first half of the book consists of discussion of identification of the data, the grave-goods types, the cultural affliations of grave-goods and interpretation of the data. The second half consists of a gazetteer of conversion-period Anglo-Saxon burial sites, numerous maps and pages of figures illustrating the artefacts. Geake concludes that the grave-goods from this period expressed a `pan-English neo-classical' identity, an Anglo-Saxon imperial ideology, drawing heavily on Roman prototypes and that this identity was promoted by the church and the state to legitimise the power of their hierarchies.