Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

ISBN-13: 9781138802124 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Joelle Rollo-Koster

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"This is an excellent collection of essays which will significantly increase our knowledge and understanding of medieval views on and experiences of death. Of particular value is the breadth and scope of the essays presented, ranging from discussions of commemoration and ritualistic aspects of death and capital punishment over to differing cultural perceptions of death beyond Christian to Jewish and Muslim communities. As such this volume will be welcome by anyone interested in medieval daily life and culture, academics and students alike."
Miriam Muller, University of Birmingham, UK

O autorze

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of 　Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Schism (1378)　(2008), and　Avignon and its Papacy (1309-1417): Popes, Institutions, and Society　(2015).