Unser Dank gilt zunächst ganz besonders Frau Stefanie Wolf und ihrem Team vom Springer-
Verlag, die uns die Möglichkeit eröffnet haben, dieses Buch zu verfassen. Es ist unser …

In the last 10,000 years, 100 billion people have died (Davies 1994: 24). The majority of
them have passed into oblivion and only a small part is actually present in the …

This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century
and more to influence the world and work of William Shakespeare. In Richard III …

This volume investigates certain aspects of medieval and early modern mentalities related to
death in Europe, exploring some of the expressions of the European cultures of dying …

In 1973, analysis of the mummified remains of a young boy dated to 700AD and from the
Late Nasca period (Peru) identified (i) chronic Pott's disease, leading to loss of lower body …

A massacre took place inside the Sandby borg ringfort, southeast Sweden, at the end of the
fifth century. The victims were not buried, but left where they died. In order to understand why …

Despite the widespread use of lime in burials in varied regions throughout history, there are
few documented cases of lime burials where the characteristics of the burial context, the …

Only a handful of mass graves from late medieval battles in Western Europe have been
subject to large scale excavation to modern standards. The principal reason is that these …

Human lives and bodies become transformed into sacred offerings during sacrificial rites.
We can recognize these transformative actions in the archaeological record based on the …

Born out of the idea of resurrection of the dead with their own bodies, until the 19th century
the ideal burial mode in Christianised Europe was the deposition of the whole, fleshed body …