Bodies, Bones, and Burial: Death in Early Medieval Texts and Culture I

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Jill Hamilton Clements

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham

Presider Name

Jill Hamilton Clements

Paper Title 1

Bede and Bones: Burial Practices before Augustine

Presenter 1 Name

Brooke Creager

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Paper Title 2

Grave Concerns: Burial, Memory, Power and Landscape in Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon England

Presenter 2 Name

Sarah Semple

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Durham Univ.

Paper Title 3

Monuments to Mourning: Monumentalizing Loss in Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds

Presenter 3 Name

Melissa Herman

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of York

Paper Title 4

The Remembered Living or the Thirsty Dead? Drinking Horns in Early Medieval Funerary Assemblages

Presenter 4 Name

Carol Neuman de Vegvar

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Ohio Wesleyan Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2018 1:30 PM

Session Location

Sangren 1730

Description

This session features papers that examine features of death, dying, and the dead in the early Middle Ages from a range of disciplinary approaches, including medieval archaeology, literature, history, theology, and art history. The purpose of the session is to consider the physical aspects of death (e.g., funerary rituals and burial, the veneration or translation of bones), the theological or social concerns about the bodies of the dead, the literary or artistic representations of dying and death, and the commemorative practices that continued to connect the worlds of the living and the dead.

Jill Clements