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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2010-06-01
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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