medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Have your student get the book <I>Blood Red Roses<I> it is
a study of the battle of Towton, and the different
articles use different sources to study it, including
archaeology.
Katherine French
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:45:39 +0000
Jon Cannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> There are a few cases in England of religious monuments
>created specifically in response to battles. The one that
>comes to mind immediately as most relevant to your
>enquiry is Battlefield, a church in Shropshire on the
>site of the Battle of Shrewsbury (1406). I have no idea
>to what extent the church or the practises for which it
>was created relate to the bodies left after the battle,
>but it might be a useful search-term to try as a way of
>digging up published research in jstor, britarch, etc.
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> Jon
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> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:49:11 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] battlefields and bodies
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> Please post responses to the list! This could
>be interesting to all sorts of people . . .
> Meg
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> A bizarre and even gruesome request - a student of mine
>is looking for literature on treatment of dead bodies on
>medieval battlefields - burial, embalming of leaders, but
>also robbing of bodies and reuse of bones and teeth (!)
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> Serves me right, really, for running a Special Subject
>on Art, Death and Memory.
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> Maddy
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> Dr Madeleine Gray
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