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

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

This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It

Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe offers an analysis of the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and e

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.