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1 November, 2017 - 01:01 ancient-origins
Dance Macabre: How the Dead Danced with the Living in Medieval Society
Ashby Kinch /The Conversation
In the Halloween season , American culture briefly participates in an ancient tradition of making the world of the dead visible to the living: Children dress as skeletons, teens go to horror movies and adults play the part of ghosts in haunted houses.
But what if the dead played a more active, more participatory role in our daily lives?
It might appear to be a strange question, but as a scholar of late medieval literature and art , I have found compelling evidence from our past that shows how the dead were well-integrated into people’s sense of community.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/dance-macabre-how-dead-danced-living-medieval-society-009063