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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiss-Krejci, Estella (-)
Other Authors: Becker, Sebastian, Schwyzer, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Bioarchaeology and Social Theory,
Subjects:
Archaeology.
Physical anthropology.
Literature > History and criticism.
Physical-Biological Anthropology.
Literary History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009670633606719
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.

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