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>Though unusual today, heart burial was once an accepted practice. In the Middle Ages, the hearts of saints were worshiped separately from their bodies, and the
by anshumankmr 4y ago
>Though unusual today, heart burial was once an accepted practice. In the Middle Ages, the hearts of saints were worshiped separately from their bodies, and the hearts of dead Crusaders were occasionally the only part sent back home,
Quite true. And this practice pre-dates the person to whom it belonged by hundreds of years. For example, when Richard I of England died, this happened
>Richard's heart was buried at Rouen in Normandy, his entrails in Châlus (where he died), and the rest of his body at the feet of his father at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou.[133]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England
- jbarham 4y agoWhen David Livingstone died in 1873 in what is now Zambia his attendants removed his heart and buried it under a tree. They then carried his body over 1000 miles to the coast near Dar es Salaam, where his remains were returned by ship to Britain and interned in Westminster Abbey. But Livingstone's heart belonged to Africa.
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoRelics were an early form of mass tourism. Every European city wanted in on the lucrative pilgrimage industry so they cut up the bodies of saints. The Catholic church has a lot of Saints that nobody even knows about anymore.
- anshumankmr 4y agoHmm but what about the early 1100s? I don't think there was a middle class at the time, there was the upper class the King or the queenn, their lords, ministers, nobles and knights. Then there was the worker class like peasants, smiths etc.