Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and Associate Professor of Art History, has been involved with the American Excavations at Samothrace, Greece since 2008. Now a senior member of the excavations, Dr. Popkin and her colleague’s work is featured on the cover of the most recent issue Archaeology magazine.
Throughout the Middle Ages, the pious Christian was constantly preoccupied with both the death of the earthly body and the subsequent survival of the soul. The fear of dying suddenly without repenting and confessing engendered images of death and the afterlife. Speakers in this session are encouraged to investigate late medieval representations of death as both an earthly and otherworldly matter. We welcome papers that explore the flourishing of these imageries especially in rural and marginal areas, which were extremely receptive to cultural exchanges, but which have not received proper scholarly investigation yet.