"Death in the Middle Ages" offers a thematic overview of death awareness and practices in medieval Western Europe. The study begins with an examination of mortality and societal attitudes toward death, including causes of death such as warfare, execution and epidemics within the medieval imagination. Analysis of funeral rites follows, detailing how communities commemorated the dead through liturgical practices, collective rituals and artistic expressions. The work further explores the medieval conception of judgment after death, with discussion of eschatological beliefs and their influence on burial commemoration. Throughout the text the author integrates visual documentation, monuments, tomb sculptures, church interiors and chapels, as evidence of how medieval societies materialized their beliefs about death, judgment and remembrance. The book thus situates death not only as a biological endpoint but as a cultural phenomenon with deep roots in religious doctrine, social norms and aesthetic traditions.