The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Mass burial: Epidemic
Briest, S. 2022
‘“The graves when they open, will be witnesses against thee”: mass burial and the agency of the dead in Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets’, in E. Weiss-Krejci, S. Becker and P. Schwyzer (eds) Interdisciplinary Exploration of Postmortem Interaction: Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces through Texts and Time, New York: Cham: Springer, 249-268.
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Castex, D. & Kacki, S. 2022
‘“Bring out your dead”: funerary and public health practices in times of epidemic disease’ in C. Knüsel & E. Schotsmans (eds) Routledge Handbook of Archeothanatology, Routledge, 331-252.
Cohn Jn, S. 2000
‘The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death’, in B. Gordon & P. Marshall (eds) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 17-43.
