Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction

Chapter 2 Visitors, Usurpers, and Renovators: Glimpses from the History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments

Chapter 3 Literary Tombs and Archaeological Knowledge in the Twelfth-Century ‘Romances of Antiquity’

Chapter 4 Anachronic Entanglements: Archaeological Traces and the Event in Beowulf

Chapter 5 The Distant Past of a Distant Past …: Perception and Appropriation of Deep History During the Iron Ages in Northern Germany (Pre-Roman Iron Age, Roman Iron Age, and Migration Period)

Chapter 6 In Search of an Acceptable Past: History, Archaeology, and ‘Looted’ Graves in the Construction of the Frankish Early Middle Ages

Chapter 7 From Saint to Anthropological Specimen: The Transformation of the Alleged Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik

Chapter 8 Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries and Twentieth-Century Mass Graves

Chapter 9 The Graves When They Open, Will Be Witnesses Against Thee : Mass Burial and the Agency of the Dead in Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets

Chapter 10 Shakespearean Exhumations: Richard III, the Princes in the Tower, and the Prehistoric Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 11 Cemetery Enchanted, Encore : Natural Burial in France and Beyond

Chapter 12 The Cemetery and Ossuary at Sedlec near Kutná Hora: Reflections on the Agency of the Dead