An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between
age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things. An important …

Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah
Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early …

Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate
visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they …

For too long graveyard studies have been seen as an eccentric byway rather than a
specialist subject area with as much to contribute as the study of ceramics, building types or …

Lordship and Faith takes as its subject the many hundreds of parish churches built in
England in the Middle Ages by the gentry, the knights and esquires, and the lords of country …

A comparative analysis of samples of external memorials from burial grounds in Britain,
Ireland and New England reveals a widespread pattern of change in monument style and …

This chapter argues that the nature of commemoration changed profoundly over the course
of the Reformation and that the cyclical and performative nature of Catholic commemoration …

Abstract THE FIELD OF late-medieval archaeology has matured significantly over the past
25 years, and its engagement with archaeological theory has increased substantially over …

The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely
neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects …

Focusing on the excavations at three later medieval religious houses-Sandwell Priory,
Bordesley Abbey and Carmarthen Greyfriars, this paper seeks to explore the relationships …