House of the Dead: The Rothwell Charnel Chapel
Death, and rituals surrounding the dead have frightened and fascinated people for centuries. How did medieval people remember their dead? What did they believe happened when a person died? How did their commemoration differ from our modern conception of grief and remembrance? The Rothwell Charnel Chapel and Ossuary Project seeks to answer these questions, in addition to offering the public a glimpse of one of only two surviving “ in situ" charnel houses in England.
Peniarth MS 481D – from National Library of Wales
By Sandra Alvarez