H-Death is a scholarly network that explores the multitude of historical issues surrounding the process and experience of dying and death. The H-Death network will allow scholars to compare and contrast the processes and experiences of dying and death across time and space, including American, European and non-Western contexts.
With the usual apologies for any cross-posting.
The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle has been slotted into place regarding the provenance of the language and writing system for Iberian manuscript MS408. A new paper, titled 'Reintroducing a vanished Romance language' is available here: https://www.academia.edu/44261539/Reintroducing_a_vanished_Romance_language
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The 2020 Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the best book in American cultural history, has been awarded to Speaking with the Dead in Early America<https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16014.html> by Erik R. Seeman (University at Buffalo).
A comprehensive study of how burial customs highlight social status and class
Editors: Dr. Allan Amanik - Assistant Professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Dr. Kami Fletcher - Associate Professor of American and African American History at Albright College
