Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities,

Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities,

Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of applicatio

Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were perva

In this richly illustrated volume, Paul Binski provides an absorbing account of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Euro