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Subject(s)

• Death—Social aspects—Europe—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval [Browse]
• Middle Ages [Browse]
• Death [Browse]
• Death—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Capital punishment [Browse]

Editor

• Rollo-Koster, Joëlle [Browse]

Summary note

'Death in Medieval Europe' 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Writing and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England / Jill Hamilton Clements
• From powerful agents to subordinate objects? : the restless dead in thirteenth- and fourteenth-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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ISBN

• 9781138802124 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 1138802123 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 9781138802131 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 1138802131 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016014444

OCLC

959698281

Other standard number

• 99970021366

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