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Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Sally Crawford
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Description for Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Hardcover. Explores the daily life of ordinary men, women and children of Anglo-Saxon England. This book covers domestic and family life, work and leisure, education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment, ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, and slavery. Series: Daily Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.
In addition to its unshakeable position on academic History curricula, Anglo-Saxon England remains popular with the general public. However, despite numerous specialist volumes on the political and economic history of the period, there are no books currently on the market which offer an overview of Anglo-Saxon daily life. This book fills that gap, covering a great range of common life experiences of individuals in England, AD c. 450-c.1066, including domestic and family life, work and leisure, education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment, ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, ... Read more
In addition to its unshakeable position on academic History curricula, Anglo-Saxon England remains popular with the general public. However, despite numerous specialist volumes on the political and economic history of the period, there are no books currently on the market which offer an overview of Anglo-Saxon daily life. This book fills that gap, covering a great range of common life experiences of individuals in England, AD c. 450-c.1066, including domestic and family life, work and leisure, education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment, ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Greenwood
Condition
New
Series
Daily Life
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781846450136
SKU
V9781846450136
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Sally Crawford
SALLY CRAWFORD is a Departmental Lecturer in the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. An internationally-recognised expert on childhood and life course in Anglo-Saxon England, she is author of Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England (1999) and Sickness and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (forthcoming).
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