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Death had an important and pervasive presence in the Middle Ages, and the beliefs and procedures which accompanied it were both complex and fascinating.

This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book ch

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

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the p

"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional.