IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1535: Cemeteries and Funeral Practices of the Medieval Jewish Communities in Europe
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives |
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Organiser: | Philippe Blanchard, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Archaeological Centre, Tours |
Moderator/Chair: | Max Polonovski, Direction du Patrimoine, Ministère de la Culture, Paris |
Paper 1535-a | Comparison of Cemeteries and Burial Practices of the Medieval Jewish Communities in Europe according to Archaeological, Textual, and Iconographic Data (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Sites, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Paper 1535-b | Funeral Practices in Les Roquêtes, the Jewish Medieval Cemetery in Tàrrega (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Sites, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Paper 1535-c | Monjuich: The Jewish Necropolis of Barcelona, 9th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Sites, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Abstract | Jewish cemeteries of medieval Europe are rather poorly documented by texts and iconography. So, archaeology is a new source wich should be exploited. The objective for this session is to present the results of recent excavations on Jewish cemeteries. A special focus will be made to the localisation of these burial sites over the city and for the elements that define them (boundaries, buildings, organisation …). Similarly, funeral practices (type of burials, position of the bodies, grave goods …) will be studied in order to compare them with those of Christian or Islamic cemeteries in the same period. |