In search of cult : archaeological investigations in honour of Philip Rahtz
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In search of cult : archaeological investigations in honour of Philip Rahtz
（University of York archaeological papers）
Boydell Press, 1993
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Exploration of cult activity in Britain, Western Europe, North America, Australia, and South Africa, from prehistory to the modern world.
Philip Rahtz's years of tenure at York were marked by substantialdevelopments both within the department and in the larger world of field archaeology. He operated with scholarship and practical energyat both ends of his profession, and now colleagues and associatesgather to honour him in a volume of essays devoted to the archaeologicalsearch for cult - a search now undertaken all the more confidentlyas scientific system is increasingly employed in this vital area ofenquiry.
Contributors: Prehistoric: ANN WOODWARD, RICK TURNER, GRAHAMWEBSTER and MARGARET GRAY.
Dark Ages: S.M. HIRST, TANIA M. DICKINSON, CATHERINE HILLS, MARK WHYMAN, HENRIETTA QUINNELL, JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, MARKJOHNSON, WARWICK RODWELL and JIM GOULD.
Medieval: HEATHER JAMES, ROBERTA GILCHRIST, RICHARD MORRIS, PETER LEACH, PETER ELLIS, GRENVILLE G. ASTILL, SUSAN M. WRIGHT, MICKASTON and JAMES BOND.
Modern: HAROLD MYTUM, PATRICIA M. ELLISON, IAN BURROW, RONJ. LAMPERT, ALAN TURNER, LAWRENCE BUTLER and L. WATTS.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Prehistoric: the cult of relics in prehistoric Britain, Ann Woodward
- Lindow Man and other British bog bodies, Rick Turner
- labyrinths and mazes, Graham Webster
- post-erection attitudes - aftermath of a henge monument, Margaret Gray. Part 2 Dark Age: Death and the archaeologist, S.M. Hirst
- an Anglo-Saxon "cunning woman" from Bidford-on-Avon, Tania M. Dickinson
- where have all the dead Saxons gone?, Catherine Hills
- invisible people? material culture in "Dark Age" Yorkshire, Mark Whyman
- a sense of identity - distinctive Cornish stone artefacts in the Roman and post-Roman periods, Henrietta Quinnell
- a "vital" Yorkshire Viking hoard revisited, James Graham-Campbell
- the Saxon monastry at Whitby past, present, future, Mark Johnson. Part 3 Medieval: the role of the church in the development of Roman and early Anglo-Saxon London, Warwick Rodwell
- Lichfield - ecclesiastical origins, Jim Gould
- the cult of St David in the Middle Ages, Heather James
- monasteries as settlements - religion, society, and economy, AD 600-1050, Roberta Gilchrist and Richard Morris
- the medieval precinct of Glastonbury Abbey - some new evidence, Peter Leach and Peter Ellis
- perceiving patronage in the archaeological record - Bordesley Abbey, Grenville G. Astill and Susan M. Wright
- the development of the Carthusian order in Europe and Britain - a preliminary survey, Mick Aston
- the Premonstratensian order - a preliminary survey of its growth and distribution in medieval Europe, James Bond. Part 4 Modern: death and identity - strategies in body disposal and memorial at North Front cemetry, Gibraltar, Harold Mytum
- 18th and 19th century gravestones - having the last word, Patricia M. Ellison
- thundercloud and archaeologist - Indian burials and the study of the past in New Jersey, Ian Burrow
- archaeology, human evolution and politics in South Africa, Alan Turner
- a matter of ethics - archaeologists in Aboriginal Australia, R.J. Lampert. Appendices: Philip Rahtz - an appreciation, Lawrence Butler
- Philip Rahtz - principal publications 1951-1992, Lorna Watts
- tabula gratulatoria
- plates. introduction, "Dewisland" - a ritual landscape, the relics and shrine of St David, Heather James
- monasteries in the landscape, gender, kinship and social networks, the monastic household - population, land-holding and resources, slavery, chastity and the monastic community, monastic estates - consolidation, management and the "monastic market", Roberta Gilchrist and Richard Morris
- the medieval precinct of Glastonbury Abbey - some new evidence - introduction, the evaluation, interpretation and discussion, Peter Lelach and Peter Ellis
- part contents.
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