Tag: memorials
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Human burials affect the environment for millennia
Ladislav Smejda “Every puff of wind … may blow the father into the sons eyes… Every grain of dust that flies here, is a piece of a Christian…” John Donne, English poet and cleric (1572-1631) People have always been intrigued by what happens to their soul and mortal remains after death. The material part of…
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St. Servatius and the Saxons (again)
By Miriam Edlich-Muth Recently I attended the ‘Parchment, Paper and Pixels’ conference in Maastricht. Set under the glorious arches of the former Franciscan monastery that houses the Regional Historical Centre of Limburg the topics of the conference skirted both the material and the ephemeral. Several papers addressed the digital strategies by which the gap between…