Ashby Kinch is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montana, USA. He is the author of Imago Mortis: The Mediating Image of Death in late Middle English Culture (2013).

• Introduction1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Danielle Westerhoff, (Durham University, UK)2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Elina Gertsman and Sam Truman, (Western Reserve University, USA)3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Jill Bradley, (Independent scholar)4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Amy Appleford, (Boston University, USA)5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Victoria Whitworth, (Independent scholar, UK)6. Gender, Age and Identity, Belle Tuten, (Juniata College, USA)7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Bruce Gordon, (Yale University and Divinity School, USA)8. The Undead and Eternal, Carl Watkins, (Cambridge University, UK)BibliographyNotes Index

Ashby Kinch is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montana, USA. He is the author of Imago Mortis: The Mediating Image of Death in late Middle English Culture (2013).

• Introduction1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Danielle Westerhoff, (Durham University, UK)2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Elina Gertsman and Sam Truman, (Western Reserve University, USA)3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Jill Bradley, (Independent scholar)4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Amy Appleford, (Boston University, USA)5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Victoria Whitworth, (Independent scholar, UK)6. Gender, Age and Identity, Belle Tuten, (Juniata College, USA)7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Bruce Gordon, (Yale University and Divinity School, USA)8. The Undead and Eternal, Carl Watkins, (Cambridge University, UK)BibliographyNotes Index

Ashby Kinch is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montana, USA. He is the author of Imago Mortis: The Mediating Image of Death in late Middle English Culture (2013).

• Introduction1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Danielle Westerhoff, (Durham University, UK)2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Elina Gertsman and Sam Truman, (Western Reserve University, USA)3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Jill Bradley, (Independent scholar)4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Amy Appleford, (Boston University, USA)5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Victoria Whitworth, (Independent scholar, UK)6. Gender, Age and Identity, Belle Tuten, (Juniata College, USA)7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Bruce Gordon, (Yale University and Divinity School, USA)8. The Undead and Eternal, Carl Watkins, (Cambridge University, UK)BibliographyNotes Index