Death in the Middle Ages and early modern time : the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death

"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 fou...

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Körperschaft: International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies Tucson, Ariz. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies (HerausgeberIn), Classen, Albrecht 1956-, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture volume 16
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture
Schlagworte:Death Middle Ages Material culture Death in art Death in literature Europa Sterben Tod Totengedächtnis Geschichte 500-1800 mehr... Kultur Spiritualität Totenkult Geschichte 500-1700 Künste
Umfang:VI, 545 Seiten
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Zusammenfassung:"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
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
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"Almost all of the papers were first presented at the eleventh International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies [...] at The University of Arizona, Tucson, in May 2014." (Seite 56)
Beschreibung:VI, 545 Seiten Illustrationen 230 mm x 155 mm
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