Death in towns: urban responses to the dying and the dead, 100-1600

Abstract

Introduction, Steven Bassett, et al the palaeopathology of urban infections, Keith Manchester patronage, collegia and burial in Imperial Rome, John Patterson town and country in Roman Britain?, Simon Esmonde Cleary mortality patterns in the late Roman cemetery at Poundbury Camp, Dorchester, Theya Molleson death and the dead in the late Roman West, Jill Harries burial in middle Saxon Southampton, Alan Morton urban cemetery location in the high Middle Ages, Julia Barrow christian bodies and souls - the archaeology of life and death in later medieval hospitals, Roberto Gilchrist burial choice and burial location in later medieval London, Vanessa Harding the Black Death in Florence - medical and communal responses, John Henderson death and rebirth in late medieval Bury St Edmunds, Robert Dinn urban funerals in late medieval and Reformation england, Clare Gittings later medieval monumental brasses - an urban funerary industry and its representations of death, Malcolm Norris dispersal or concentration - the disposal of the Winchester dead over 2000 years, Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle.