You are certainly right about the practice in Irish society in recent
times, but whether this was the case in Medieval Ireland, I don't know.
Sean
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> Can anyone tell me of any evidence that women were
> responsible for preparing the dead for burial in medieval
> societies. It seems to be the case that women are the
> ones who lay out corpses in traditional Indian and Irish
> communities (or maybe I'm wrong about this) and I'd like to
> know if they did so in the middle ages, especially in Italy
>
> Laura
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