History: Early England

Binski, P. 1996

Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation, London: British Museum Press.

Buckberry, J. & Cherryson, A. 2010

Later Anglo-Saxon Burial c. 650-1100 AD, Studies in Funerary Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Press.

Burgess, C. 2000

‘“Longing to be prayed for”: death and commemoration in an England parish in the later Middle Ages’, in B. Gordon and P. Marshall (eds) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,44-65.

Coster, W. 2000

‘Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early Modern England’ in B. Gordon and P. Marshall (eds) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 266-287.

Craig-Adams, E., Crangle, J., Barnwell, P.S., Hadley, D., Adams, A.T., & 3 others 2019

‘Charnel practices in Medieval England: new perspectives’, Mortality, 24:2, 145-166.

Crangle, J. 2015

‘Why did England change its mind? Perceptions regarding human remains before, during and after the Reformation’, in A. Eusterschulte H. Wälzholz & G. Frank (eds) Anthropological Reformations: Anthology in the Era of Reformation, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 371-81.

Daniell, C. 1998

Death and Burial in Medieval England 1066-1550, London: Routledge.

Dinn, R. 1995

‘“Monuments answerable to men’s worth”: burial patterns, social status and gender in later medieval Bury St Edmunds’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 46:2, 237-255.

Duffy, E. 1992

The Stripping of the Atlars: Traditional Religion on England 1400-1580, London: Yale University Press.

Farrow, T. 2013

‘The dissolution of St Paul’s charnel: remembering and forgetting the collective dead in late medieval and early modern England’, Mortality, 28:1, 171-188.

Gittos, H. 2013

Liturgy, Architecture and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Halsall, G. 1995

Early Medieval Cemeteries, Glasgow: Cruithne Press.

Lucy, S. & Reynolds, A. (eds) 2002

Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales, London: Society for Medieval Archaeology.

Newstok, S. 2009

Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sayer, D. 2013

‘Christian burial practice in the Early Middle Ages: rethinking the Anglo-Saxon funerary sphere’, History Compass, 11:2, 133-146.

Sayer, D. & Williams, H. (eds) 2009

Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages, Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Taylor, A. 2001

Burial Practice in Early England, Stroud: Tempus.

Thompson, V. 2004

Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge: Boydell.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract