Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time /

Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time /

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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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Other Authors: Weiss-Krejci, Estella (Editor), Becker, Sebastian (Editor), Schwyzer, Philip (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Bioarchaeology and Social Theory,
Subjects:
Archaeology.
Physical anthropology.
Literature > History and criticism.
Physical-Biological Anthropology.
Literary History.
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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: MassBurial 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.

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