Signals of belief in early England : Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited / edited by Martin Carver, Alex Sanmark and Sarah Semple.
This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous understanding of the topic, well rooted in the ideas of its time, regarded the English as adherents of two consecu...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Preface; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Heathen Songs and Devil's Games (Neil Price); Chapter 1: Agency, Intellect and the Archaeological Agenda (Martin Carver); Chapter 2: In the Open Air (Sarah Semple); Chapter 3: At the Water's Edge (Julie Lund); Chapter 4: At the Funeral (Howard Williams); Chapter 5: In the Hall (Jenny Walker); Chapter 6: Animal Magic (Aleks Pluskowski); Chapter 7: Horses in Mind (Chris Fern); Chapter 8: Living On: Ancestors and the Soul (Alexandra Sanmark); Chapter 9: Creating the Pagan English (Sue Content and Howard Williams)