Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

Conference about The death in the monastery of Corias (Cangas del Narcea): burials and funerary rites in medieval times

On June 19, 2014 at 19.30 hours, Conference about The death in the monastery of Corias (Cangas del Narcea): burials and funerary rites in medieval times  by  Alejandro García Álvarez, archaeologist and professor of the University of Oviedo

We intend to meet funeraries behaviors documented in the monastery of Corias (Cangas del Narcea, Asturias) in the medieval centuries.The analysis of the topographic distribution of burials in the monastic building, the written sources and the results of the archaeological excavation, there are relationships between the monastic institution and secular and ecclesiastical society of the South-West of Asturias

Talk is organized by the Association of friends of the Museum within the cycle of death in the Museum