{"product_id":"9780199544554","title":"Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the earliest period of post-Roman society-the fifth to seventh centuries-for which documents are lacking. For later centuries, archaeological evidence can provide us with an independent assessment of the realities of capital punishment and the status of outcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe findings of this pioneering national study thus have important consequences for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon society. Overall, Reynolds concludes, organized judicial behaviour was a feature of the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, rather than just the two centuries prior to the Norman Conquest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026922422512,"sku":"9780199544554","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199544554_p0.jpg?v=1763668881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199544554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}