ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates from a long-term perspective the organisation of the sepulchral space in Naples, one of the largest and most dense urban areas in Europe. The burial of human remains within inhabited spaces is a characteristic of the settlements of Western Christian Europe starting from the central centuries of the Middle Ages and has determined the establishment of a specific relationship of the living with the dead body. Several factors conditioned the configuration of this relationship, with important repercussions on the material organisation of the burial space. In this sense, Naples constitutes an important case study, due to the demographic dimension, the complex urban structure and the important transformations that its sepulchral space underwent between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
