IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 101: British Archaeological Association, I: 'The only certainty in life' - Boundaries of Death
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | British Archaeological Association |
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| Organiser: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Paper 101-a | On the Metaphorical and Literal Boundary: The Placement of Furnished Burials by Ecclesiastical Sites, 9th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 101-b | 'Timor mortis conturbat me’: Commemoration and the Macabre at Rosslyn Chapel (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture |
| Paper 101-c | Havens for Burial: The Convents of Constantinople and Their Female Founders (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This panel examines aspects of the boundary of death beginning with an analysis of Viking Age burials and how the furnishing of these, and their location, helps us to understand what they represented. We then move on to an examination of the concentration of images concerning death at Rosslyn Chapel and consider the implications of these. Finally, we look at the founding of several Byzantine convents and role these places played as places of burial for patrons, families and the nuns. |