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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; Volume 16
Fa parte di: Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture
Titolo e contributi: 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.)
Abstract: 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--