Death in medieval Europe : death scripted and death choreographed
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Death in medieval Europe : death scripted and death choreographed
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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 fourteenth-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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1- Writing and Commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England
Jill Hamilton Clements
2-From Powerful Agents to Subordinate Objects? The Restless Dead in 13th- and 14th-Century Iceland
Kirsi Kanerva
3-Animated Corpses and Bodies with Power in the Scholastic Age
Winston Black
4-Women, Dance, Death, and Lament in Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Examples
Cynthia Sautter
5-Wills and Testaments
Francine Michaud
6-Spectacular Death: Capital Punishment in Medieval English Towns
James Davis
7-Ghostly Knights: Kings' Funerals in 14th Century Europe and the Emergence of an International Style
Mikhail A. Boytsov
8-Death of Clergymen: Popes and Cardinals' Death Rituals
Joelle Rollo-Koster
9-A Dead Zone in the Historiography of Death in the Middle Ages: The Sentiment of Suspicious Death
Franck Collard
10-Registering Deaths and Causes of Death in Late Medieval Milan
Ann G. Carmichael
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