The Subtle Knife
Using Domestic Objects to Access the Middle Anglo-Saxon Worldview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11611896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Knox (University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 173 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-263 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.2016.1175858 |
| OpenAlex | W2402518551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
The seventh to ninth centuries AD are understood as a period of changing worldviews with the introduction and embedding of Christianity across the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In contrast to the attention afforded to the ‘ritual’ or sacred transformations of this period, relatively little has been made of the changing archaeological record of ‘ordinary’ or secular spaces and material cultures in order to understand this historical change in worldview. The use and significance of the domestic Anglo-Saxon knife spans both settlement and cemetery contexts. It is argued that the study of knife use and deposition reveals beliefs and worldviews expressed in everyday activities as well as in those deposits that appear ‘special’
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Anglo saxon · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Ninth · Period (music · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History
Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul
Objectification
Art And Agency
Early Medieval Settlements
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
The Church in Anglo–Saxon Society
The use of grave-goods in Conversion-period England, c.600-c.850
Common threads and separate strands in Anglo-Saxon England - Christopher Scull. Early medieval (late 5th–early 8th centuries AD) cemeteries at Boss Hall and Buttermarket, Ipswich, Suffolk (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 27). xvi+364 pages, 213 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Leeds
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Feasting the Dead
Time Regained
Ritual and Rationality
Social Analysis of Mortuary Evidence in German Protohistoric Archaeology
Living with the Dead
Technologies of Appearance
Houses, Lifecycles and Deposition on Middle Bronze Age Settlements in Southern England
What's So Special? A Reinterpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'Special Deposits
Passing into Poetry
Special Deposits' in Anglo-Saxon Settlements
Deer, Land, Knives and Halls
Ethnography and archaeological interpretation of funerary remains
The Archaeology of Personhood
Fragmentation, Personhood and the Social Construction of Technology in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain
Ritual
From spectator to critic and participant
Keeping the dead at arm's length
Monastic and Church Archaeology
Human-thing entanglement
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |