The studies on death almost always analyse the cases of what could be called "a normal death," that is when someone dies in his family or not far from the family, and in which case the burial ritual may be strictly observed. The object of the present study is to answer to a less known aspect, i.e., the collective death of large groups of persons far from home, in war. With an aim to possibly identifying the elements that make up a specific ritual, a series of instances characteristic to Eastern Europe between the 15th-19th centuries have been considered.
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