The Early Middle Ages necropolis of Collecchio (Parma). Human remains

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Brasili Gualandi ◽  
E. Calanchi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Early Middle Ages

The Cult of Relics in the Letters and ‘Dialogues’ of Pope Gregory the Great: A Lexicographical Study

Traditio ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. McCulloh
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The West ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Gregory The Great

Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages witnessed a change in the Christian attitude toward the remains of the saints. Holy bodies came to be treated less and less as normal corpses, worthy of special veneration but still subject to many of the laws and customs which had regulated the treatment of human remains in pagan Antiquity. They came rather to be viewed as cult objects which could be moved or even divided up according to the demands of religion with little regard for earlier prohibitions of these practices. This change occurred relatively early in the Greek, eastern portion of the Roman Empire. In the mid-fourth century the Caesar Gallus translated a saint's body from one tomb to another, and less than two centuries later Justinian asked Pope Hormisdas for portions of the bodies of the apostles. Despite some outstanding exceptions such as the translations performed by St. Ambrose, the Christians of the West were more conservative in these matters. Nevertheless, by the ninth century at the very latest, western Christians had followed the lead of the eastern church in both translating and dismembering holy bodies.

Strontium isotopes of human remains from the San Martín de Dulantzi graveyard (Alegría-Dulantzi, Álava) and population mobility in the Early Middle Ages

2013 ◽  
Vol 303 ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Angel Ortega ◽  
Iranzu Guede ◽  
Maria Cruz Zuluaga ◽  
Ainhoa Alonso-Olazabal ◽  
Xabier Murelaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Strontium Isotopes ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
San Martín
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