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Author D'Avray, D. L

Title Death and the prince : memorial preaching before 1350 / D.L. D'Avray
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Contents 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Individuals -- 3. The Prince -- 4. Death and the Afterlife. Excursus: Some Recent Work on the History of Death -- 5. Representations and Reality -- Appendix: The Character and Contents of Key Manuscripts
Summary Based on unpublished sermons in memory of kings and princes, this book examines the relationship between kingship and death, in a period when a genuinely secular political consciousness existed alongside other-worldly priorities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Sermons -- History and criticism
Funeral sermons -- History and criticism.
Sermons, Medieval -- History and criticism
Sermons, Latin -- History and criticism
Funeral Rites -- history
Attitude to Death -- history
Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Sermons
Funeral sermons
Kings and rulers -- Death and burial
Sermons, Latin
Sermons, Medieval
SUBJECT Europe -- Kings and rulers -- Death and burial
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1280767030
9781280767036