Announcing Our Latest Special Issue

We are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue What Survives After Death? Parish Communities and Death Commemoration Strategies in the Medieval City – In memoriam Clive Burgess, in the scientific journal MEDIEVALISTA. Coordinated by Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos and Ana Isabel Ribeiro, this volume includes eight articles examining death commemoration in medieval urban contexts. Covering regions such as Portugal, Spain, France, and Prussia, the contributions explore diverse commemorative strategies and the social implications of death rituals. Editorial support was provided by Mariana Barreira.

The cult of the dead in Medieval Europe: revisiting a historiographical theme in times of crisis 

Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos, Ana Isabel Sampaio Ribeiro 25-40 

A crise dos vivos: uma crise na comemoração dos mortos? A propósito do “Livro das Capelas” da catedral de Coimbra (século XIV) 

Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho 41-67 

Enterramientos aristocráticos y redes eclesiásticas en Navarra. Una breve comparativa (siglos XIV-XV) 

Fermín Miranda García 69-107 

The liber sepulturarum of the collegiate church of Saint-Paul of Lyon: topography and sociology 

Hervé Chopin 109-138 

A comemoração dos mortos em tempos medievais: uma abordagem exploratória com base no caso da Sé de Coimbra 

Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujão 139-165 

Clergyman as a Subject and Object of Death Commemoration in Late Medieval Prussian Town. Case studies from Thorn (Toruń) at the turn of the 15th and 16th Century 

Marcin Sumowski 167-201 

Les paroissiens de Saint-Pierre du Queyroix de Limoges et la communauté des prêtres : des liens jusque dans la mort au XIVe siècle 

Anne Massoni 203-227 

The Role of the Beguine Movement in the Commemoration of the Dead in Douai, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 

Mary Anne Gonzales 229-264 

A morte e a memória no Mosteiro de Lorvão 

Luís Miguel Rêpas, Catarina Fernandes Barreira 265-299

We would like to express our deep appreciation to the entire team of the COMMEMORtis project and to the journal MEDIEVALISTA for their invaluable contributions in bringing this Special Issue to fruition.