Death And Dying In The Middle Ages

Author : Edelgard E. DuBruck,Barbara I. Gusick
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004345418

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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages by Edelgard E. DuBruck,Barbara I. Gusick Pdf

Death and Dying in the Middle Ages examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies. It studies literary and artistic imaging and the underlying philosophical and theological convictions that shaped medieval attitudes toward death. A collection of eighteen articles by contributors in the Western hemisphere, this new compendium on death and its implications will interest the specialist, the student and teacher of cultural history, religion, folklore, psychology, literature, and art, and also the general public.

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315466842

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Death in Medieval Europe by Joelle Rollo-Koster Pdf

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages. Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death, and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland, and Spain. Together these chapters discuss how death was ritualised and choreographed, but also how it was expressed in writing throughout various documentary sources including wills and death registries. In each instance, records are analysed through a cultural framework to better understand the importance of the authors of death and their audience. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110434873

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Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004358331

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Dealing With The Dead by Anonim Pdf

Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its finality. Whether they were commoners, clergy, aristocrats, or kings, the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of their communities long after they were laid to rest in their graves. From stories of revenants bringing pleas from Purgatory to the living, to the practical uses and regulation of burial space; from the tradition of the ars moriendi, to the depiction of death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members. Contributors are Jill Clements, Libby Escobedo, Hilary Fox, Sonsoles Garcia, Stephen Gordon, Melissa Herman, Mary Leech, Nikki Malain, Kathryn Maud, Justin Noetzel, Anthony Perron, Martina Saltamacchia, Thea Tomaini, Wendy Turner, and Christina Welch

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801433150

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Medieval Death by Paul Binski Pdf

In this richly illustrated volume, Paul Binski provides an absorbing account of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. He draws on textual, archaeological, and art historical sources to examine pagan and Christian attitudes toward the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual, and mortuary practice. Illustrated throughout with fascinating and sometimes disturbing images, Binski's account weaves together close readings of a variety of medieval thinkers. He discusses the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art and examines the development of the medieval tomb, showing the changing attitudes toward the commemoration of the dead between late antiquity and the late Middle Ages. In one chapter, Binski analyzes macabre themes in art and literature, including the Dance of Death, which reflect the medieval obsession with notions of humility, penitence, and the dangers of bodily corruption. In another, he studies the progress of the soul after death through the powerful descriptions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Dante and other writers and through portrayals of the Last Judgment and the Apocalypse in sculpture and large-scale painting.

Author : D. Vance Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226641041

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Arts of Dying by D. Vance Smith Pdf

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn’t due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy’s attempt to designate death’s impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.

Author : Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443433

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A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700 by Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle Pdf

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004352377

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Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe by Anonim Pdf

Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe offers an analysis of the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe.

Author : Barbara Harvey
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191591730

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Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 : The Monastic Experience by Barbara Harvey Pdf

This fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities is also a broad exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages, by one of its most distinguished historians. - ;This is an authoritative account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's greatest monastic communities. It is also a wide-ranging exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century, by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their dependants, and their benefactors. She examines the charitable practices of the monks, their food and drink, their illnesses and their deaths, the number and conditions of employment of their servants, and their controversial practice of granting corrodies (pensions made up in large measure of benefits in kind). All these topics Miss Harvey considers in the context both of religious institutions in general, and of the secular world. Full of colour and interest, Living and Dying in England is an original and highly readable contribution to medieval history, and that of the early sixteenth century. - ;By one of the greatest authorities on the subject -

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Death
ISBN : 3110442302

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Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.

Author : Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 0700620486

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Death in the Middle Ages by Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase Pdf

Author : Christopher Daniell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134666362

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Death and Burial in Medieval England 1066-1550 by Christopher Daniell Pdf

Death had an important and pervasive presence in the middle ages. It was a theme in medieval public life, finding expression both in literature and art. The beliefs and procedures accompanying death were both complex and fascinating. Christopher Daniell's appproach to this subject is unusual 1n bringing together knowledge accumulated from historical, archaeological and literary sources. The book includes the very latest research, both of the author and of others working in this area. The result is a comprehensive and vivid picture of the entire phenomenon of medieval death and burial.

Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801817625

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Western Attitudes toward Death by Philippe Ariès Pdf

AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek

Author : Ashby Kinch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004243699

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Imago Mortis by Ashby Kinch Pdf

Here, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material.

Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501721632

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Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary Pdf

Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in the negotiation of political disputes. In this book, the distinguished medievalist Patrick J. Geary shows how exploring the complex relations between the living and dead can broaden our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural history of medieval Europe. Geary has brought together for this volume twelve of his most influential essays. They address such topics as the development of saints' cults and of the concept of sacred space; the integration of saints' cults into the lives of ordinary people; patterns of relic circulation; and the role of the dead in negotiating the claims and counterclaims of various interest groups. Also included are two case studies of communities that enlisted new patron saints to solve their problems. Throughout, Geary demonstrates that, by reading actions, artifacts, and rituals on an equal footing with texts, we can better grasp the otherness of past societies.