Encountering Remains of Charnel and Saints Inside Historic British Churches

Nugent, Ruth ORCID: 0000-0001-6323-9527, Farrow, Thomas J and Foster, Katherine (2026) Encountering Remains of Charnel and Saints Inside Historic British Churches In: Emplaced Belief: Heritage and Religion Reconsidered. Explorations in Heritage Studies, 12 . Berghahn Books,Oxford, pp. 163-190. ISBN 9781836952930, 1836952937

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Summary

This chapter addresses the role historic human remains have played in British churches since the nineteenth century as heritage assets, through two genres of human remains that have been deliberately presented for encountering inside post-Reformation British churches: charnel and medieval saints. This chapter moves heritage scholarship beyond the current emphasis on human remains in archaeological and museum studies and recentres focus on them within church buildings. It addresses two crucial questions for the first time: How has the confessional divide been navigated when publicly displaying charnel or promoting medieval saints’ remains in Protestant churches? And how have tangible (architectural) and intangible (digital) spaces of the church facilitated encounters with charnel and saints?

Item Type:	Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Archaeology, British Saints, Church Burial, Heritage, History
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures > Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2026 08:23
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2026 11:18
DOI:	10.3167/9781836952930
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3196595
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