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Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirations. In the last decades, the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement to undertake archaeological excavation of historical sites has led to a massive increase in the number of post-medieval graveyards and burial places that have been subjected to archaeological investigation. The archaeology of the more recent periods, which are comparatively well documented, is no less interesting and important an area of study than prehistoric periods. This volume offers a range of case studies and reflections on aspects of death and burial in post-medieval Europe. Looking at burial goods, the spatial aspects of cemetery organisation and the way that the living interact with the dead, contributors who have worked on sites from Central, North and West Europe present some of their evidence and ideas. The coherence of the volume is maintained by a substantial integrative introduction by the editor, Professor Sarah Tarlow. "This book is a 'first' and a necessary one. It is an exciting and far-ranging collection of studies on post-medieval burial practice across Europe that will most certainly be used extensively" Professor Howard Williams

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Cryomation --- Archaeology, Post-medieval Europe, Burial Customs, Funeral Practices, Death and Burial, Cemeteries. --- Archaeothanatology --- Archaeology of death --- Death, Archaeology of --- Funerary archaeology --- Thanatology

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La réouverture des sépultures mérovingiennes est une pratique bien connue des archéologues et des historiens. Elle est observée sur de nombreuses nécropoles de la moitié nord de la France entre les VIe et VIIIe siècles et a souvent été associée à des actes de pillage commis par des individus cupides et barbares. Sur la base de données issues de sites fouillés récemment, l'étude propose de reconsidérer ces sépultures aux ossements déplacés et au mobilier funéraire en partie emporté. L'analyse archéothanatologique de tombes provenant de plus de 40 sites permet de discuter de l'impact de la pratique sur l'architecture funéraire, le squelette et les objets, ainsi que les modes opératoires et la chronologie des intrusions. Cette nouvelle lecture ouvre la discussion sur les motivations qui sous-tendent ces actes. Loin de l'image de pillards sévissant de sites en sites, leurs auteurs ne pourraient pas être si éloignés des défunts bouleversés. "The reopening of graves during the Early Middle Ages has long been recognised by archaeologists and historians across Western Europe. Based on data from more than 40 cemeteries and applying archaeothanatological analysis, this study explores the archaeological evidence for the reopening, at the levels both of the burial structure and of its contents (container, artefacts, skeletal parts)."--Publisher web site.

Merovingians --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeologists --- Tombs --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Archaeology --- Funeral customs and rites --- Professional ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- France, Northern --- Antiquities. --- Archaeothanatology --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Grave goods --- Middle Ages --- Antiquities --- France --- Antiquities, Medieval --- Medieval antiquities --- Medieval archaeology --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Burial goods --- Burial objects --- Grave objects --- Ceremonial objects --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Archaeology of death --- Death, Archaeology of --- Funerary archaeology --- Thanatology --- History --- Merovingers (dynastie) --- Graven --- Archeologie --- Funeraire archeologie --- Merovingische oudheden --- Menselijke resten (archeologie) --- Methodologie