Bibliography
  1. Home
  2. Bibliography
  3. Fry (Susan) 1999a

Fry, Susan, Burial in medieval Ireland 900–1500: a review of the written sources, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999.

  • Book/Monograph
Citation details
Contributors
Work
Burial in medieval Ireland 900–1500: a review of the written sources
Place
Dublin
Publisher
Four Courts Press
Year
1999
BibTeX
Description
Abstract (cited)
Despite the great amount of work done on burial in Ireland in recent decades, this is the first study of the written sources for burial in the British Isles. This wide-ranging study explores many diverse topics, including the social status of women, embalming, elite cemeteries, the spread of Christianity, and the social uses of the cemetery. While some of the practices discussed will certainly seem quite extraordinary to today's reader, the author supplies contemporary evidence from France and Great Britain proving that Ireland's burial customs closely (if not exactly) parallel those in medieval France and Great Britain.
(source: Four Courts Press)
Related publications
Reviews
Jaski, Bart, “Dood en begraven [Review of: Fry, Susan, Burial in medieval Ireland 900–1500: a review of the written sources, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999.]”, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 113 (2000): 404–406.
Subjects and topics
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2013, last updated: January 2019
Retrieved from ‘https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Fry_(Susan)_1999a&oldid=162398’