Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs, by Andrew Reynolds

Lambert, Tom

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“…Most of these are pre-existing, such as at Meon Hill (Hampshire), Staines (Middlesex), 36 Reynolds considers the various aspects of English deviant burial to manifold effect and considers each in relation to the Christianization process (Reynolds 2009, 34-60). Portions of Reynolds's findings have been problematized (Lambert 2012, for example) and nuanced further (Klevnäs 2016a, 2016band Aspöck 2011, for example), however, much of his study remains convincing, particularly when it comes to individual graves and well-documented 'execution cemeteries' which we shall focus our attention on. 37 Fruitful work has been done to examine possible outlaw hideouts, such as Surtshellir in Iceland (Guðmundur Ólafsson and others 2010); however, these studies can only demonstrate that these sites were occupied by individuals removed from society.…”

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Different Strokes: Judicial Violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia

Ruiter¹,

Ashby²

2018

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia

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This paper takes a fresh look at the use of judicial violence in the societies of Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, it considers legal, historical, literary, and archaeological evidence for judicially-prescribed maiming and execution. Using this evidence, it describes the English and Scandinavian systems of judicial violence in new detail, reflecting on important aspects of each in turn before turning to a more comparative approach to redirect debate and focus future work.

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Section: Archaeological Evidencementioning

confidence: 95%