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In the late middle ages a macabre funerary monument came into fashion in England; the Cadaver or Transi Tomb. These typically showed an emaciated dead or dying person lying naked on a burial shroud. Why were they created? Who made them? What did they symbolise? Come on a mini transi-trail with one of the worlds leading experts on Medieval Death and Cadaver Tombs, Dr Christina Welch.
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Follow Dr Christina Welch as she explores a unique form of medieval funerary monument, the Cadaver or Transi Tomb. These are stone or sometimes wooden figures in churches and cathedrals carved between four and five hundred years ago that typically show an extraordinary thin person, dead, or neari...
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