Death – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

Deadly Experiments: Testing Bodies in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

Matthew McIntosh — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:33:39 +0000

Medieval and Renaissance medicine turned the dead body into knowledge, evidence, remedy, and spectacle, often by using those

Matthew McIntosh — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:32:53 +0000

As Britain’s cities filled with the dead, body snatchers, anatomy schools, pauper graves, and public-health fears forced a

Matthew McIntosh — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:31:55 +0000

: Twentieth-century grave robbing did not disappear. It changed form, moving through ransom, looting, museums, medical schools, and

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:03:32 +0000

Across ancient African cultures, mourning was more than sorrow. It was the ritual work of guiding the dead

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:02:36 +0000

In early modern England, dying children were imagined not as silent victims but as emotional, spiritual actors who

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:11:55 +0000

Maya death rituals linked burial, ancestor worship, maize, jade, caves, tombs, and the underworld into a sacred map

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:11:21 +0000

Famadihana, Madagascar’s “turning of the bones,” is more than a funerary ritual. It is a powerful act of

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:10:48 +0000

New Orleans jazz funerals turn mourning into movement, blending African diasporic deathways, Christian ritual, brass bands, mutual aid,

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:22:08 +0000

Across the ancient Mediterranean, death could be judged not only by its cause, but by its purpose, public

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:21:21 +0000

Old Norse myth and saga did not treat voluntary death as a single moral category. Chosen death could