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Article: Victoria Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2006
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Victoria Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Boydell Press, 2004). x + 236 pp. ISBN 1-84383-070-1. 50.00 [pounds sterling].
Victoria Thompson's monograph presents a cultural study (not of the theoretical kind), marshalling evidence for later Anglo-Saxon belief and practice around death. The book, which should appeal to the scholar and student alike, draws together a range of evidence from art, archaeology, palaeography, history, and literature. In chapter i the case of AEthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, provides a starting point for later Anglo-Saxon England and Thompson's wider discussion, through AEthelflaed's experience of the ...