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Author Stanford, Charlotte A.

Title Commemorating the dead in late medieval Strasbourg : the cathedral's book of donors and its use (1320-1521) / Charlotte A. Stanford
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 327 pages)
Series Church, faith and culture in the Medieval West
Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 The Book of Donors: Construction and History; 3 The Social and Political Setting; 4 The Obituary History of Strasbourg Cathedral; 5 Commemoration in Strasbourg's Other Churches; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with 6,954 entries from artisan, merchant and aristocratic classes. This study is the first to comprehensively analyse the unpublished Book of Donors manuscript and show the types and patterns of gifts made to the cathedral. It also compares these gift entries with those in earlier obituary records kept by the cathedral canons, as well as other medieval obituary notices kept by parish churches and convents in Strasbourg. Analysis of the Book of Donors notes the increase of personal deta
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- France -- Strasbourg -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Death -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Strasbourg (France) -- Church history
Strasbourg (France) -- Social life and customs
Subject France -- Strasbourg
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011014434
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