Vydavateľ Harper Collins
Počet strán 272
Rok vydania 2023
Jazyk Angličtina
Väzba Mäkká väzba / Paperback
EAN 9780008447335
Adresa titulu https://www.artforum.sk/katalog/180319/the-bone-chests
These were the very people who witnessed and orchestrated the creation of the kingdom of Wessex in the 7th century; who lived through the creation of England as a unified country in response to the Viking threat; and who were part and parcel of the Norman conquest.On that day, the soldiers smashed several chests to the ground, using the bones as missiles to shatter the cathedral's stained glass windows.
Afterwards, the clergy scrambled to collect the scattered remains.In 2014, the six remaining chests were reopened. A team of forensic archaeologists, using the latest scientific methods, attempted to identify the contents: They discovered an elaborate jumble of bones, including the remains of two forgotten princes. In The Bone Chests, Cat Jarman builds on this evidence to untangle the stories of the people within.
It is an extraordinary and sometimes tragic tale, and a story of transformation. Why these bones? Why there? Can we ever really identify them? In a palimpsest narrative that runs through more than a millennium of British history, it tells the story of both the seekers and the sought, of those who protected the bones and those who spurned them; and of the methods used to investigate.

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