Restless corpses: ‘secondary burial’ in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|75|290|769-780

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.75, Iss.290, 2001-12, pp. : 769-780

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Abstract

The historically documented burial samples of the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties allow a detailed analysis of the circumstances that led to dismemberment, evisceration, disturbance, exhumation and reburial over a millennium. The results may provide deeper and more broadly applicable insights into relevant cultural formation processes of élite burials.