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Title Death in the Middle Ages and early modern time : the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death / edited by Albrecht Classen
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016
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Series Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; volume 16
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; v. 16.
Contents Death and the Culture of Death : Universal Cultural-Historial Observations, with an Emphasis on the Middle Ages / Albrecht Classen -- Heroic Poetry : Achievement and Heroic Death in Old English Literature / John M. Hill -- Death and Ritual : the Role of Wills in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Louise Fellows -- Palimpsest in the Service of the Cult of the Saints : the False Arch in the Nave's Vault of the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe / Rosemarie Danziger -- When the Dead No Longer Rest : the Religious Significance of Revenants in Sagas set in Viking Age Settlements Around the Time of Conversion / Katharina Baier, Werner Schäfke -- The North Portal of the Freiburg im Breisgau Minster : Cosmological Imagery as Funerary Art / Nurit Golan -- The Effects of the Black Death : the Plague in Fourteenth-Century Religion, Literature, and Art / Jean E. Jost -- Bonum est mortis meditari : Meanings and Functions of the Medieval Double Macabre Portrait / Dominique DeLuca -- Imagining the Mass of Death in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale : a Critique of Medieval Eucharistic Practices / Daniel F. Pigg -- Death, Sinfulness, the Devil, and the Clerical Author : the Late Medieval German Didactic Debate Poem Des Teufels Netz and the World of Craftsmanship / Albrecht Classen -- Pro Defunctis Exorare : the Community of the Living and the Dead in Jean Gerson's Sermones de Omnibus Sanctis and de Mortuis / Scott L. Taylor -- "And Thus She Will Perish" : Gender, Jurisdiction, and the Execution of Women in Late Medieval France / Patricia Turning -- "Je viens d'estrange contrée" : Medieval French Comedy Envisions the Afterlife / Sharon Diane King -- Gallows Humor in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea / Connie L. Scarborough -- Late Medieval Carved Cadaver Memorials in England and Wales / Christina Welch -- Images of Mortality in Early English Drama / Thomas Willard -- New Perspectives of the Early Modern Afterlife : the Last Pilgrimage in the Poetry of John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh / Cyril L. Caspar -- Maternal Death and Patriarchal Succession in Renaissance France / Elizabeth Chesney Zegura -- Fear of Seeming Death in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Václav Grubhoffer
Summary "Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in response to death. The medieval and early modern world had to cope with the same questions, but found its own characteristic answers, as the contributions to this volume illustrate in a myriad of approaches"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Death -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Death -- Europe -- Religious aspects -- History
Middle Ages.
Material culture -- Europe -- History
Death in art.
Death in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Manners and customs
Intellectual life
Death in literature
Death in art
Death -- Religious aspects
Death -- Social aspects
Material culture
Middle Ages
Sterben
Totengedächtnis
Tod
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045693
Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760
Europe -- Religious life and customs
Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Classen, Albrecht, editor.
LC no. 2016015164
ISBN 9783110436976
3110436973
3110434873
9783110436983
3110436981
9783110434873