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

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03956-0_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-03956-0_12</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Cemetery and Ossuary at Sedlec near Kutná Hora: Reflections on the Agency of the Dead.
Original language description
This chapter exposes multiple contextual layers in the historical background of the famous Ossuary at Sedlec in the Czech Republic. The Cistercian monastery of Sedlec was founded in the twelfth century and its importance soon increased together with the expansion of silver mining in the nearby town of Kutná Hora. According to a later legendary narrative, soil brought from the Holy Land was scattered across the monastic cemetery, which made this place an attractive destination for the burial of countless corpses in the course of the following centuries. The enormous amount of human remains in individual as well as mass graves led to the establishment of the Ossuary, which was rearranged several times, most recently in the second half of the nineteenth century. A variety of folk tales tell of the miraculous deeds of the bones and their special powers. Being conveniently located in the buffer zone of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kutná Hora, today crowds of tourists appreciate the macabre use of hum
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
ISBN
978-3-031-03956-0
Number of pages of the result
27
Pages from-to
269-295
Number of pages of the book
317
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Springer, Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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