Comments on: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tonweight http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1188265 Tonweight Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1188265 The Empire of Death.  This is a giant cow leather book.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is decorated with human bone.  This object menaces with spikes of human bone and native gold.  On the item is an image of Urist McFeatherhelmets the dwarf. The Empire of Death.  This is a giant cow leather book.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is decorated with human bone.  This object menaces with spikes of human bone and native gold.  On the item is an image of Urist McFeatherhelmets the dwarf.

]]> By: catpause http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1187602 catpause Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1187602 Visiting the Paris catacombs was a morbid and perception altering event in my life. I'm glad I did it and advise anyone reading this thread to visit an ossuary. Visiting the Paris catacombs was a morbid and perception altering event in my life. I’m glad I did it and advise anyone reading this thread to visit an ossuary.

]]> By: Romana_Clef http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1187251 Romana_Clef Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1187251 Would you believe it, 9 months in Czech Republic and I didn't visit even ONE ossuary - even the famous one, much less a hidden-away secret one. I note that on his site he mentions one of the crypts in Italy being the best museum of fashion he's ever seen. I was glad to see I wasn't the only one interested in that. It is my real interest in mummies - skeletons and dead bodies all look more or less the same. But it is so rare to find artifacts of whole outfits, and even rarer to see them actually on a body, as they were worn. I might never be able to get over the repel portion of my repulsion/attraction to death, but for the chance to see how an actual woman of the 1700s dressed, I might just manage it. Would you believe it, 9 months in Czech Republic and I didn’t visit even ONE ossuary – even the famous one, much less a hidden-away secret one.

I note that on his site he mentions one of the crypts in Italy being the best museum of fashion he’s ever seen. I was glad to see I wasn’t the only one interested in that. It is my real interest in mummies – skeletons and dead bodies all look more or less the same. But it is so rare to find artifacts of whole outfits, and even rarer to see them actually on a body, as they were worn. I might never be able to get over the repel portion of my repulsion/attraction to death, but for the chance to see how an actual woman of the 1700s dressed, I might just manage it.

]]> By: Mister44 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1187179 Mister44 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1187179 There was a church filled with bones like this in Rome (I believe). But when I went, it was closed for a year for renovations :o( There was a church filled with bones like this in Rome (I believe). But when I went, it was closed for a year for renovations :o(

]]> By: Corry O'Neill http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1186904 Corry O'Neill Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1186904 We will be reading this book at  http://www.templeilluminatus.com/group/necromancy . . . And . . . @TheNecromancy:twitter  We will be reading this book at 
http://www.templeilluminatus.com/group/necromancy . . . And . . . @TheNecromancy:twitter 

]]> By: Corry O'Neill http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1186898 Corry O'Neill Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1186898 I want this book! I want this book!

]]> By: Brent Kirkham http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/the-empire-of-death-a-cultural-history-of-ossuaries-and-charnel-houses.html#comment-1186873 Brent Kirkham Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=113186#comment-1186873 John Connolly, whose Charlie Parker novels I would recommend, did quite a bit of research on ossuaries himself, for one of his novels:  http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/journalism_sedlec.php It scared the sh*t out of me reading the book. I don't want photos.  Kthxbai.     John Connolly, whose Charlie Parker novels I would recommend, did quite a bit of research on ossuaries himself, for one of his novels: 
http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/journalism_sedlec.php
It scared the sh*t out of me reading the book. I don’t want photos.  Kthxbai.    

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