| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (colour), maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment in time. This book ? the outcome of forty years of research ? takes an interdisciplinary approach to burial practices in Ireland in order to interpret and to chart the development of burial rites as they appear in the archaeological record of the late Iron Age (c.200 BC?AD 300) and early medieval period (c.AD 400?800). Sources used include archaeological excavation evidence; c14 (radiocarbon) dating evidence; strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for movement of peoples; and osteo-archaeological evidence. This is combined with a careful and discerning examination of references to death, burial and associated events that appear in Irish hagiography, penitentials, laws and canons compiled during the seventh and eighth centuries. Topics covered include: the transition from cremation to inhumation; re-use of ancient ancestral burial places; occasional use of grave-goods; funeral feasts; atypical or deviant burials; mobility of people within and into Ireland; the exceptional burials of some women; the cessation of burial of Christians among their ancestors; and burial in early Church cemeteries. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Burial -- Ireland -- History -- To 1500.
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Burial. |
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Ireland. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Early Christian. |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Early Christian -- Ireland.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval. |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval -- Ireland.
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Iron age -- Ireland.
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Iron age. |
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Ireland -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mapping death. Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press Ltd, 2021 1846828597 (OCoLC)1139766345 |
| ISBN |
9781846829857 (electronic book) |
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1846829852 (electronic book) |
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9781846828591 (cloth) |
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1846828597 (cloth) |
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