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Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment in time. This book ? the outcome of forty years of research ? takes an interdisciplinary approach to burial practices in Ireland in order to interpret and to chart the development of burial rites as they appear in the archaeological record of the late Iron Age (c.200 BC?AD 300) and early medieval period (c.AD 400?800). Sources used include archaeological excavation evidence; c14 (radiocarbon) dating evidence; strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for movement of peoples; and osteo-archaeological evidence. This is combined with a careful and discerning examination of references to death, burial and associated events that appear in Irish hagiography, penitentials, laws and canons compiled during the seventh and eighth centuries. Topics covered include: the transition from cremation to inhumation; re-use of ancient ancestral burial places; occasional use of grave-goods; funeral feasts; atypical or deviant burials; mobility of people within and into Ireland; the exceptional burials of some women; the cessation of burial of Christians among their ancestors; and burial in early Church cemeteries.

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Early Christian --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Iron age --- History --- Ireland --- Antiquities.

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Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Medicine, Medieval --- Emotions --- Healing gods --- Healing --- Ethnology --- Rites et cérémonies médiévaux --- Médecine médiévale --- Dieux guérisseurs --- Guérison --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Anthropological aspects --- Religious aspects --- History --- Aspect anthropologique --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire --- Rites et cérémonies médiévaux --- Médecine médiévale --- Dieux guérisseurs --- Guérison --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval - Germany --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval - Europe

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"Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. Rituals for the dying were well developed, practiced widely, and thoroughly integrated with music. Indeed, these rituals reveal that music, rather than the Eucharist, held a privileged position at the final breath. Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life examines and recovers, to the extent possible, the music sung for the dying during the Middle Ages. The book offers a view of the plainchant repertory through the sources of individual institutions. The first four chapters contain a series of "case studies": close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their relationships between text and melody and for their functions within the rituals. Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and bound them together within a single tradition. The book provides the first editions of the rituals' chants and considers the functions of the music. Why was music given such a prominent position within the deathbed liturgies? Why did communities gather and sing when a loved one was dying? The manuscripts reveal a lost art of comforting the dying and the grieving"--

Gregorian chants --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Social aspects --- History. --- Music --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1499

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Cemeteries --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Cimetières --- Funérailles --- Catalogs --- Catalogues --- Rites et cérémonies médiévaux

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Dead --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval. --- Combustion --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Morts --- Embaumement --- Funérailles --- Civilisation médiévale --- History --- Histoire --- Rites et cérémonies médiévaux --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval --- Funérailles --- Civilisation médiévale --- Rites et cérémonies médiévaux --- History. --- Cadavres