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PDF Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City Katherine Boivin

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A more recent example is the Douaumont ossuary in France, which contains the remains of more than 130,000 French and German soldiers that fell at the Battle of Verdun during World War I. The Catacombs of Paris represents another famous ossuary. Patchwork Girl is a work of experimental fiction by author Shelley Jackson. In the book, she invites the reader to “recreate” Frankenstein’s monster, although the version in this book is female.

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The chandeliers at Sedlec and Arciconfraternita Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte are inarguably impressive but the skulls atop each branch are not people anymore, they are ornamentation. At Hallstatt the ossuary reminds visitors that these people once led their own lives. The use of ossuaries is a longstanding tradition in the Eastern Orthodox Church. If there is reason to believe that the departed is a saint, the remains may be placed in a reliquary; otherwise the bones are usually mingled together (skulls together in one place, long bones in another, etc.). The remains of an abbot may be placed in a separate ossuary made out of wood or metal.

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Visit the boutique to discover this season’s most coveted collections. Luxemburg was a heroic, larger than life figure, a champion of the working class dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist order. From a young age, she became steeped in the discourse of Marxism and involved herself in socialist causes. Along with Leo Jogiches, she founded the Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania.

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In many cases, those involved in designing and maintaining charnel houses would at least attempt to organize the bones and remains in a slightly decorative manner. At the St. Catherine’s Monastery charnel house, they merely piled them on top of each other. Several medieval buildings in Leuk were in ruins and slated for demolition. When the secret ossuary beneath St. Stephan’s was discovered, renewed interest in the old buildings increased. They have now been restored, and serve as another draw to the historic little town.

THE CHARNEL HOUSE (2016) — CULTURE CRYPT - CULTURE CRYPT

THE CHARNEL HOUSE ( — CULTURE CRYPT.

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Sinai’s St. Catherine’s Monastery is well-known among Catholics for several reasons. Many believe its location is close to the spot where God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush in the Book of Exodus.

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Connecting these spaces is Golden Lasso, 2023, a Jean-Michel Othoniel installation that cascades from the fourth floor down to the first. The house commissioned the French contemporary artist to create a piece that would conjure the impression that one of Coco Chanel's strings of pearls was spilling through the brand-new space. Most people know Noel from his book How the Irish Became White, or from the journal Race Traitor that he helped edit back in the nineties and early aughts.

John Garvey and I began Race Traitor with the goal of breaking up the white race, as a contribution to working-class solidarity. We never used, endorsed or promoted identity politics; we railed against multiculturalism and “diversity”; we were scornful of those who wanted to preserve the “good aspects” of “white culture” or to “re-articulate” or “decenter” whiteness. We wanted nothing to do with the growing academic field of “whiteness studies.” We did share some vocabulary with individuals and organizations that were traveling on different roads to different places. However this return to theoretical and critical Luxemburgism has mainly been carried out by those who have learned nothing from her real thinking or her heroic militancy. However, on the lips of some enlightened bourgeois and renegade socialists such ideas are useful for dragging the proletariat into the capitalist mindset and the political and economic structures of the ruling class.

Confronting Mortality In An Unsettling, Inspiring 'Tour Of Bones' - NPR

Confronting Mortality In An Unsettling, Inspiring 'Tour Of Bones'.

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Pre-Medieval Tombs Found in Ancient Roman City of Ossonoba

This was torn down and reconstructed several times before the gothic St. Stephan’s Church was erected in 1494. Other analyses I’ve found useful include Adam Tooze’s sobering analysis of the financial implications of the war in New Statesman. Alex Gendler has also gone on Antifada to discuss the invasion, so take a listen if you get the chance. Yudin has other articles on the current crisis which are worth checking out. The Russian avant-garde, globally speaking, was split into many currents, subcurrents, movements, etc. So the term “avant-garde” subsumes widely diverse innovative efforts that developed in Russia already before the revolution.

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At the Schusterkapelle in Dingolfing, Germany there are 60 similarly painted skulls in a charnel house and Křtiny Ossuary, Moravia is also known for skulls painted in a style akin to those at Hallstatt. Presenting the skulls in this way is meaningful to more than just the people of Hallstatt and it offers an alternative to the anonymity and potential dehumanizing presentation in a standard ossuary. There is no way to get around the fact it is a collection of stacked skulls but painting them in this way does make it a more palatable solution. Again, most charnel houses served as places to store bones of long-deceased individuals when space in a cemetery was making new burials impossible. In Kkottongnae Village, a Catholic Church-run welfare facility in South Korea, a recently built charnel house serves as a location to inter the remains of those who died without family. Although many different cultures and peoples throughout the world built charnel houses at various times, they were particularly common in regions where the landscape didn’t provide much space for burials in the first place.

In honor of her life and legacy, I thought I’d post some of her works and texts about her along with an introduction to her 1918 polemic The Russian Revolution by Onorato Damen. Once he became a Marxist, he and became a founding member of the International Communist Current before leaving to form the more councilist, theory-oriented group Internationalist Perspective. He participated on a couple panels on Wertkritik and on democracy as well, which are worth checking out.

We don’t live in Berlin, where participation in a protest gets you lots of pats on the back. You can end up with a concussion, or spend the night in jail, or be required to remove your underwear [for a cavity search], or [possibly] have a felony case opened against you. Given the current situation, we can’t exclude the possibility that protests will eventually be punishable by 20-year prison sentences or the death penalty.

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