The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania
The paper analyses unconventional burials in Christian Lithuania in the 14th-17th centuries. The burials contain either headless or limbless bodies buried with face downwards or on their side; such inhumations are not to be attributed as occasional or entirely exceptive ones. These burials in subst...
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Main Author: | Gintautas Vėlius |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Vilnius University Press
2010-06-01
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Series: | Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos |
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Online Access: | https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/article/view/36768 |
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