Dear Laura, and all
firstly, thank you all for a great list. This is my first entry
to the list, although I have been
reading and learning for a month or two now. This reference is likely not
exactly what you are looking for, but Patrick Geary's fairly recent
*Phantoms of Remembrance* presents visual evidence for women's presence at
least in the capacity of mourner at the laying out and burial of dead in
German lands. He discusses the issue in the chapter on 'Gender and
Memory' (or perhaps 'Men, Women and Memory' - I don't have the book in
front of me).
Lara Hinchberger
PhD candidate
Centre for Medieval Studies
U of Toronto
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, laura jacobus wrote:
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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
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> Laura
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