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After Death and Afterlife
On worked stone fragment
- UCL Petrie Museum catalogue
- Information on the Pyramid of Khafre
On Khafre Enthroned
- Information on the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
- General reading on funerary practices in ancient Egypt
On the Book of the Dead
- Catalogue entry of the object from the British Museum
- General reading on books of the dead
General background on afterlife beliefs in ancient Egypt.
Books, and Scores after Death
On Amorum Emblemata
On Wagner’s score in the British Library
On the mathematics book
Sacrificial Animals
On Jar of Emydidae Terrapins
- the ethics of dissection and current debates, see the Peta website
On Sacrificial Bulls Amphora
The Fate of One’s Bones
- On human remains and human bodies in the Middle Ages, see Jack Hartnell’s Medieval Bodies
- On disembodied heads in particular, see Losing our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture on jstor and Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
On St Catherine of Sienna, see
- Some information on the Basilica San Domenico website
- Atlas Obscura
- Peter Mansau’s Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead
On Charlemagne
- A short biography from BBC History
- In Dante’s Divine Comedy, Canto XVII, Charlemagne appears to Dante in Paradise
On Johannisschüsseln
- Barbara Baert’s article on the history of Johannisschüsseln
On Sir Thomas Browne
- The website of the Sir Thomas Browne Society of Norwich (has a lot of additional resources)
- On Browne’s life:
- Barbour, R. 2016. Sir Thomas Browne: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Batty Shaw, A. 2005. Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich (Nowrich: Browne 2005 Committee)
- Particularly on Browne’s belief in the supernatural, see: Geis, G. and Bunn I (1981). Sir Thomas Browne and witchcraft: a cautionary tale for contemporary law and psychiatry in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. Vol. 4, No. 1/2, pp. 1–11. Available: doi:10.1016/0160-2527(81)90017-0
- On Browne’s skull:
- Meyrick, F. J. 1922. Sir Thomas Browne: The Story of His Skull, His Wig, and His Coffin Plate in The British Medical Journal (May 6, 1922), pp. 725-726.
- Tildesley, M. L. 1923. Sir Thomas Browne: His Skull, Portraits, and Ancestry in Biometrika, Vol. 15, No. 1/2 (Aug., 1923), pp. 1-76.
- Williams, C. 1895. The Measurements of the Skull of Sir Thomas Browne (Norwich: Jarrold & Sons), available: https://archive.org/details/b22362551/page/n2
- Browne’s works:
- Browne, T. 2018. Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. Kevin Killeen (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Browne, T. 1972.
- Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus, ed. Robin Robbins (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
- For a different take on the story of Browne’s skull, see Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, for instance Sebald, W. G. 2002. The Rings of Saturn (London: Vintage)
On the Robert Noel Collection see the blogpost by N. J. Booth
Life after Abortion
On the effects of abortion