Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction : : Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time / / edited by Estella Weiss-Krejci, Sebastian Becker, Philip Schwyzer.
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and...
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| Superior document: | Bioarchaeology and Social Theory, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bioarchaeology and Social Theory,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Agency: An Introduction
- Chapter 2. Visitors, Usurpers, and Renovators: Glimpses from the History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments
- Chapter 3. Literary Tombs and Archaeological Knowledge in the Twelfth-Century ‘Romances of Antiquit
- Chapter 4. Anachronic Entanglements: Archaeological Traces and the Event in Beowulf
- Chapter 5. The Distant Past of a Distant Past …: Perception and Appropriation of Deep History during the Iron Ages in Northern Germany (Pre-Roman Iron Age, Roman Iron Age, and Migration Period)
- Chapter 6. In Search of an Acceptable Past: History, Archaeology, and ‘Looted’ Graves in the Construction of the Frankish Early Middle Ages
- Chapter 7. From Saint to Anthropological Specimen: The Transformation of the Alleged Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik
- Chapter 8. Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries and Twentieth-Century Mass Graves
- Chapter 9. The Graves When They Open, Will Be Witnesses Against Thee: Mass Burial and the Agency of the Dead in Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets
- Chapter 10. Shakespearean Exhumations: Richard III, The Princes in the Tower, and the Prehistoric Romeo and Juliet
- Chapter 11. Cemetery Enchanted, encore: Natural Burial in France and Beyond
- Chapter 12. The Cemetery and Ossuary at Sedlec near Kutná Hora: Reflections on the Agency of the Dead.