Papers from a conference, April 19-21, 1991, organized by the Urban Research Committee of the University of Birmingham. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 Romano-British 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 / Roberta 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 representation of death / Malcolm Norris -- Dispersal or concentration : the disposal of the Winchester dead over 2000 years / Birthe KjØlbye-Biddle.
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