At first, they tried to do proper burials but thousands upon thousands died and that was no longer possible. Giovanni Boccaccio, a writer who lived through the black plague wrote, "Dead bodies filled every corner. Most of them were treated in the same manner by the survivors, who were more concerned to get rid of their rotting bodies than moved by charity towards the dead. With the aid of porters, if they could get them, they carted the bodies out of the houses and laid them at the door; where every morning quantities of the dead may be seen."
They also used the bodies for military tactics-yes they used dead bodies-Tartars when attacking Italian merchants inside Caffa, loaded their catapults with the bodies of plague victims and hurled them into the city. You can bet that the Tartars won that battle. However, the Italian merchants panicked, abandonded the city and fled on rat-infested ships straight to Europe.
They buried them or burned them if there were too many to bury.
They bury them or they cremate them.
The formal name of the vault at the cemetery where they store bodies during the winter when the ground is too frozen to bury people is a crypt.
Beginning in Roman times people started to bury the dead when Christianity took hold, so by the middle ages burial was the preferred method. At times during plague events when there were thousands of dead some bodies were burned, but generally they were buried. This was true on battle fields as well.
They didn't bury them. They burned them on pyres.
During the Black death, bodies were at first buried. but as the mortality rate increased, burying the bodies became too laborious the churches began to burn the bodies. a common nursery rhyme is proof of this. Ring around the rosy. A pocket full of posies. Ashes, Ashes! We all fall down! Ring around the rosy- Rosary beads that gave you God's guidance and help. A pocket full of posies- Posies were used to mask the odor of decaying bodies. which was thought to cause the plague. Ashes, Ashes!- The church burned the deceased when they could no longer bury the bodies. We all fall down- Death.
Whoever was related to the person who died would bury them. Or if someone died nearby they would bury them with their relatives to save alot of time, because with all the deaths, there wasn't enough time to dig seperate graves
Some probably do, but it would be unusual. Most people will either bury their cat's bodies or have them cremated.
To bury ancient bodies.
To bury ancient bodies.
and in desserts
the bury the dead so the bodies arent laying around being stinky