The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with 6,954 entries from artisan, merchant and arist

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

An illustrated account of the medieval funeral monuments in Tou; France - in the cathedral, the museum and the collegiate church of Saint-Gengoult.

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical impo

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an exis