medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
To add to what Paul Chandler has said, here's a view of the early modern monks' cemetery at Naples' Museo Nazionale di San Martino, a Carthusian monastery founded in 1325 and suppressed in the 1860s:
http://www.italie1.com/images/napsmartino.jpg
As burial grounds go, it's not large. It's pretty clear that the graves here were used repeatedly, with newer burials on top of earlier ones. In such a context, and with a large body of monks (which this monastery did have until 1800), assigning a personal grave site early in someone's residence would not have been very practical.
Best,
John Dillon
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