Les espaces funéraires dans les ensembles monastiques du Haut Moyen Age (in collaborazione con G. Cantino Wataghin)

[Machine translation] The contribution examines a topic that is still scarcely covered by the archaeology of monasteries, in particular with regard to the Italian environment, such as that relating to burial areas in monastic spaces, in a perspective in which functional analysis is combined with topographic analysis. Various funerary centers are considered, starting from the problem of the location of the cemetery reserved for the religious community, then passing through the choices made by the abbots for their own burial, not ignoring many other categories of people who can be buried in the monastery, from visiting clergymen, to lay people of different status and in a different relationship with the monastic pole. The contribution is part of a larger essay, in which these specific problems are also analyzed in relation to the theme of relics and the presence of holy bodies, powerful attractors of burials, even of prestige (the expression is intentionally mutated from recently introduced historiographic categories). The analysis of a wide spectrum of written sources on the entire European space is intertwined with an examination of various situations brought to light by more or less recent archaeological investigations, to return a very composite picture, which poses questions in terms of interpretation and at the same time opens up new, interesting research prospects.