Christian Burial Practice in the Early Middle Ages: Rethinking the Anglo-Saxon Funerary Sphere

摘要: Anglo-Saxon burial practices are particularly interesting because there is considerable variation in the archaeological record. In earlier period local communities used a single cemetery site and grave goods were mode of expression that signalled difference. Christian not employed same way but this change may have had religion as its central agent. Moreover, context display changed diversity was found location – Minster, churchyard, field or execution site, amongst social-signals these contexts indicated included rank religious association well family deviant status. Dissimilar numbers children up to 51% churchyards compared 25% cemeteries show must held different meaning social groups, indeed England’s earliest communities’ seem considered be significant places for children, rural family, contrast which also extended other groups.