2012
DOI: 10.4000/archeomed.10386
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Découverte d’un cœur-reliquaire à Douai (ancienne église Saint-Jacques, place Carnot) : 
approche pluridisciplinaire 
de l’embaumement à l’époque moderne

Abstract: La découverte, au cours de fouilles archéologiques, d’un cœur embaumé dans un reliquaire du xvie siècle a été l’occasion pour une équipe pluridisciplinaire de travailler sur la composition du baume. L’utilisation de techniques d’investigation très diverses (palynologie, chromatographie, paléogénétique…) a permis d’avancer dans la connaissance des espèces et techniques utilisées pour réaliser cet acte chirurgical et également de réhabiliter tant soit peu l’embaumement médiéval ou moderne.

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“…They see the opening of the thoracic cage during the Renaissance as routinely practiced in combination with embalming, even though the primary sources on the matter are ambiguous [41]. The biological data on post-mortem interventions from the 13 th through the 18 th centuries come from a variety of sources: embalmed and well-preserved bodies randomly discovered [11,12,42], digs focused on the more or less well-preserved bodies of persons of prestige [43–45,13], isolated discoveries of bodies with no historical context [15,16,46], mounds of bones mixed together in ossuaries [8,9,47], and hearts contained in urns [48]. None of these studies established the incidence of these practices within the population, nor did any of them posit the hypothesis that heart extraction might have been performed other than in combination with some other procedure.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They see the opening of the thoracic cage during the Renaissance as routinely practiced in combination with embalming, even though the primary sources on the matter are ambiguous [41]. The biological data on post-mortem interventions from the 13 th through the 18 th centuries come from a variety of sources: embalmed and well-preserved bodies randomly discovered [11,12,42], digs focused on the more or less well-preserved bodies of persons of prestige [43–45,13], isolated discoveries of bodies with no historical context [15,16,46], mounds of bones mixed together in ossuaries [8,9,47], and hearts contained in urns [48]. None of these studies established the incidence of these practices within the population, nor did any of them posit the hypothesis that heart extraction might have been performed other than in combination with some other procedure.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%