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Death in the middle ages and early modern times : the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death / edited by Albrecht Classen
Titolo / Responsabilità: Death in the middle ages and early modern times : the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death / edited by Albrecht Classen
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Descrizione fisica:
VI, 545 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 230 mm x 155 mm
Serie: Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; Volume 16
ISBN: 978-3-11-044230-4
Data:2016
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Nota:
- 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.
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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