Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England

The inclusion of animal remains in funerary contexts was a routine feature of Anglo-Saxon cremation ritual, and less frequently of inhumations, until the introduction of Christianity during the 7th century. Most interpretation has focused either on the animal as symbolic of identity or as an indicat...

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Main Author: Rainsford, Clare E.
Other Authors: Bond, Julie M.
Language:en
Published: University of Bradford 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17224