Daily Medieval

Yesterday we discussed the problem of decay when a corpse had to be transported over a long distance. A medieval historian named Boncompagno...

Yesterday I raised the question of how a body was treated, such as that of  Louis IX of France dying on Crusade, when immediate burial was n...

Box that held Richard's heart. The inscription reads: "Here is the heart of Richard, King of England."  Once Richard the ...

A medieval reliquary from the collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Over a year ago I touched on funeral practices . A recent com...

[ In memoriam : William Shaw, 1917 - 2012] Have modern funerary practices always been in place? Were there different methods (and reasons...