RITUALS OF THE CORPSE Mortuary Beliefs and Practices in Britain with Sarah Tarlow Sunday 9th October 2022 at 1:30 pm
What did people in the past really believe about death and the dead body? In early modern Britain and Ireland, the answer to that question depended on the context: if you were talking about anatomy you would say something different to what you might say if you were speaking about religion. And neither of those things necessarily lined up with what people actually did in their ordinary lives, or the folkloric beliefs to which they also subscribed. Sarah Tarlow Sarah Tarlow is professor of historical archaeology at the University of Leicester. She specialises in the archaeology of death and burial, the archaeology of the post-medieval period, theory and ethics. She has published numerous specialist books and articles on archaeology, and is the author of The Archaeology of Loss, a memoir, to be published by Picador in spring 2023. She recently finished leading an inter-disciplinary project on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals, funded by the Wellcome Trust, and is now working on the ethics of displaying human remains in museums. Image credit - Corpses standing against the walls of catacombs. Process print after C. C. Pierce and Co. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark (CC BY 4.0) |
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