Buried together, buried alone: Christian commemoration and kinship in the early Middle Ages
Irene Barbiera
This essay explores the ways in which strategies of commemoration elaborated by kin groups changed after end western Roman empire and what role Christianity played these transformations. In order to shed some light on situation, a broad sample cemeteries dating from late antiquity early Middle Ages was analysed, focusing spatial organization individuals within around cult places. For this purpose archaeological, physical anthropological epigraphic data were studied juxtaposed with theoretical debates expressed Christian writers. The at hand seem suggest that rather than radically transforming kinship strategies, added new ideological layers, making its use display multidimensional.
Early Medieval Europe