IoA/BM Seminar: Gittos 25 April 2023
25 April 2023, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm
Dr Helen Gittos (University of Oxford): Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine Army?
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Iain MacDonald
Location
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612UCL Institute of Archaeology31-34 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PY
The Sutton Hoo ship burial is the most famous example of what we now call princely burials. The recent publication of the example from Prittlewell (Essex) has brought our knowledge of them into sharper focus but some questions remain. Here I want to focus on one of them: why were these men buried with so many objects from the East Mediterranean? The conventional view is that they probably acquired them as gifts or through trade. But I want to argue for another explanation which opens up a new view on this period of early Anglo-Saxon history.
About the Speaker
Helen Gittos
at University of Oxford