Hadley, Dawn orcid.org/0000-0001-5452-5265, Craig-Atkins, E, Barnwell, Paul et al. (5 more authors) (2019) Charnel practices in medieval England:new perspectives. Mortality. pp. 145-166. ISSN 1469-9885
Abstract
Studies of English medieval funerary practice have paid limited attention to the curation of human remains in charnel houses. Yet analysis of architectural, archaeological and documentary evidence, including antiquarian accounts, suggests that charnelling was more widespread in medieval England than has hitherto been appreciated, with many charnel chapels dismantled at the sixteenth-century Reformation. The survival of a charnel house and its human remains at Rothwell, Northamptonshire permits a unique opportunity to analyse charnel practice at a medieval parish church. Employing architectural, geophysical, and osteological analysis, we present a new contextualisation of medieval charnelling. We argue that the charnel house at Rothwell, a subterranean room constructed during the thirteenth century, may have been a particularly sophisticated example of an experiment born out of beliefs surrounding Purgatory.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Archaeology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2019 12:20 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2019.1585782 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13576275.2019.1585782 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143668 |
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