Burial Society And Context In The Roman World

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Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World

Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World
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Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages : 304
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Download or read book Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World written by John Pearce and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial and ethnicity and society; Religion and Burial in late Roman Britain and Italy.


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