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Reconstructing past monastic life. Volume 1, Bioarchaeology, life and death : new rrends from archaeological, bioanthropological and documentary perspectives / edited by Lluis Lloveras, Carme Rissech, Jordi Nadal, and Philip Banks.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monasticism and religious orders--History.
- Monasticism and religious orders.
- Monastic and religious life--History.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2025.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of reviewers
- Introduction
- Part 1
- State of health and human remains
- Chapter 1
- Unusual and exuberant dental calculus in an 18th- to 19th-century nun from Santa Catalina de Siena, Belmonte (Cuenca, Spain): oral/joint dysfunction or facial paralysis?
- Chapter
- 2 Disabled individuals in a Belgian medieval Cistercian monastic community: a palaeopathological perspective
- Chapter 3
- A high-ranking cleric with arterial calcification: vascular disease in medieval England
- Part 2
- Life pathways in monastic contexts
- Chapter 4
- Unveiling the past: bioanthropological insights into life and death at the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona) in the 13th to 15th centuries
- Chapter 5
- The early medieval necropolis of the Former Municipal Courts of Barcelona: a unique discovery
- Chapter 6
- Bioanthropological study of human remains from funerary unit UF228 (14th to 15th centuries) at the archaeological site of the friary of Santa Caterina (Barcelona)
- Chapter 7
- The cloister of the monastery of Santa Maria de Roses in the early modern period: study of a secular funerary space in a religious centre
- Chapter 8
- The life and death of the Poor Clare nuns of the Holy Trinity in Monte Sant'Angelo (Puglia, Southern Italy): archaeological, anthropological, pathological, botanical, entomological, textile, chemical and documentary data
- Chapter 9
- The tomb of Prioress Jerònima de Gort (1586-1601): an interdisciplinary approach to the female Hospitaller Monastery of Santa Maria d'Alguaire
- Chapter 10
- 'The greatest evil is physical pain': an exploration of suffering from a medieval Austin Friary in Cambridge, UK using an 'Avatar Model'
- Chapter 11
- The ossuary of the Teutonic monastery of San Leonardo di Siponto in Manfredonia (Puglia, southern Italy): anthropological and palaeopathological data for the reconstruction of the monastic community
- Chapter 12
- The everyday life of a female religious community from a multidisciplinary approach: the convent of Santa Clara (Pontevedra, Spain)
- Part 3
- Animals in the monastic environment
- Chapter 13
- Paw prints in the cloister: the study of ichnites on tiles from the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain)
- Chapter 14
- Bilateral skull asymmetries in two ancient semi-feral horse breeds and their implications for archaeological equine studies: how can they help us in monastic contexts?
- Chapter 15
- Estimating the withers height and body length of domestic cattle from head values: its applications to archaeological samples
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lloveras, Lluís Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 1: Bioarchaeology, Life and Death
- ISBN:
- 9798888571743
- Publisher Number:
- 40032884547
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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