Death in medieval Europe : death scripted and death choreographed / edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster.

Date:
2017
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Physical description

xiv, 242 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Writing the dead : text and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England / Jill Hamilton Clements -- From powerful agents to subordinate objects? : the restless dead in 13th- and 14th-century Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva -- Animated corpses and bodies with power in the scholastic age / Winston Black -- Women, dance, death, and lament in medieval Spain and the Mediterranean : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim examples / Cynthia Sautter -- Wills and testaments / Francine Michaud -- Spectacular death : capital punishment in medieval English towns / James Davis -- Ghostly knights : kings' funerals in 14th century Europe and the emergence of an international style / Mikhail A. Boytsov -- Death of clergymen : popes and cardinals' death rituals / Joëlle Rollo-Koster -- A dead zone in the historiography of death in the Middle Ages : the sentiment of suspicious death / Franck Collard -- Registering deaths and causes of death in late medieval Milan / Ann G. Carmichael.

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    History of Medicine
    JIB.38.AA2
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  • 9781138802124
  • 1138802123