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Martin Carver

Autor/a de Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?

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Martin Carver was an army officer for fifteen years, a commercial archaeologist for thirteen and Professor of Archaeology at the University of York from 1986 to 2007. He has created two commercial archaeology units (Birmingham Archaeology and FAS-Heritage Ltd.) and initiated two museums (at Sutton mostra'n més Hoo and Portmahomack). He has carried out archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria and is the author of Archaeological Investigation (2009). mostra'n menys

Inclou aquests noms: M. O. H. Carver, Martin O.H. Carver

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Surviving in Symbols (1999) 39 exemplars
Archaeological Investigation (2010) 11 exemplars

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So this continues my Beowulf journey.* A detail oriented academic read (the second half; the first half reads like a whodunnit) but for me fascinating for its ties to Beowulf. And this connection is addressed by Carver in the Open Forum epilogue of is book where he answers questions posed by lecture attendees and viewers of the BBC2 program that focused on Sutton Hoo. (A wonderful and informative way to wrap things up)

Here he states “A burial is composed of selected objects and it is likely that the objects, taken individually and together, were also full of allusions to rank, power, ancestry, ideology and allegiance to kin at home and overseas. I therefore regard a ship burial as just as much a poem as Beowulf is, just as difficult to interpret but just as capable of giving us insights into the Anglo-Saxon mind. Burials are poems written with material culture; so that the choice of burial rite and choice of what is put into the grave are choices to what was known or feared or loved by the mourners.”

“Neither Sutton Hoo or Beowulf represents a straight account of reality. Both contain allusions to the real world, but we do not know for certain which the were.”

*so the Beowulf course i was in has taken me from Tacitus writing in the 2nd A.D. to Sutton Hoo with Basil’s 1939 dig** and various interpretations of Beowulf (Heaney, Hedley, Tolkien) including modern novels and movies (Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead and The 13th Warrior and The Mere Wife). Now onto Gardner’s Grendel and Ibn Fadlan’s travels.

**Serendipitously, last year before the Beowulf course, I’d watched the movie The Dig with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan as Basil Brown and Edith Pretty which, based on this reading, fairly accurately captures the events surrounding that dig (well, except the whole love triangle (?) tangent involving Lily James)
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jimgosailing | Nov 18, 2021 |
A detailed, scientific account of the real story behind Netflix's "The Dig" film and places the story of the Sutton Hoo burials in a historical, and geographical context. Essential reading g for anyone seeking a greater understanding of the 7th century AD in which the burial took place.
 
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edwardsgt | Jan 31, 2021 |
 
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erilarlo | May 15, 2012 |
A good basic introduction to what we know - or think we know - about the Picts. Carver emphasises the extent to which experts disagree on many areas, especially language and customs.
 
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gwernin | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 7, 2008 |

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