All men - and people in general - must die, but what happens afterwards? In this episode we discuss understandings of death, burial rituals, and the afterlife in ASOIAF and real life! Join us to learn about how the pop culture understanding of "Viking funerals" is somewhat inaccurate, but also how funeral processions for kings and nobles in ASOIAF are far less extra than they were in real-life France.
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Content, sources and ressources:
Lo:
Kult och ritualer (Historiska museet)
Levande och döda (Historiska museet)
Hästen i den fornnordiska tron (SO-rummet)
Fornnordisk tro och asatro (SO-rummet)
Valhalla & Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology (Jessica Suess)
“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” (Lee Colwill, in “Trans and Genderqueer Subjects of Medieval Hagiography” eds. Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt)
Virginie:
Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge (C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink)
Passionnément Moyen Âge -plaidoyer pour le petit peuple (Claude Gauvard)
Jean-Claude Schmitt in La Mort et ses au-delà, sous la direction de Maurice Godelier
Les Funérailles royales de Henri IV (1610) (Gillet)
Conclave : comment se déroule l’élection d’un Pape ?
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