Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death

ISBN-13: 9783110442304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 551 str.

Albrecht Classen

Opis

Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in response to death. The medieval and early modern world had to cope with the same questions, but found its own characteristic answers, as the contributions to this volume illustrate in a myriad of approaches.

Recenzje

"Gleichwohl liegt hier ein Kompendium vieler interessanter bekannter aber auch neuer Aspekte vor, das einen lebendigen Einblick in einen im persönlichen und öffentlichen Denken gern vernachlässigten Themenbereich bietet."
Franz Neiske in: Franca recensio 2018/1 https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/frrec/article/view/45544

"This is the sixteenth volume in a series that has been a steady and significant contributor to key issues in scholarly thought. [...] This collection on death is a worthy addition to previous topics (which include such concepts as war, medicine, and sexuality). Without making claims to comprehensiveness (an impossible goal), the wide-ranging nature of this series highlights shared concepts within the long premodern era, and Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times takes its place as a valuable scholarly resource within this broader corpus."
Charlotte Stanford in: Mediaevistik 29 (2016), 325-328

O autorze

Albrecht Classen, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.