Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe: 14th – 19th Centuries

ISBN-13: 9781032017457 / Angielski

Angela Jianu; Gheorghe Lazăr

Opis

The historiography of death, memory and testamentary practices is already abundant for Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For East-Central Europe there are many short studies in various regional languages, mainly on anthropological/ethnographic aspects of funeral ritual.

This is an edited collection of studies by international scholars on the interlocking themes of attitudes and discourses on death, commemorative practices and inheritance/testamentary strategies in the Balkans and East-Central Europe. These and other related themes are addressed comparatively and cover areas including Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, areas of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria from the perspective of imperial – Ottoman and Habsburg – legacies.

Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe contributes to this subject by: linking anthropologial/religious/cultural approaches to death to the legal/economic aspects of inheritance/commemoration; adding a still absent East-Central European and Habsburg, Balkan, and Ottoman dimension to the study of death, memorialization and testaments; and presenting an abundant primary and secondary material in English translation and thus placing research on death and testaments by East-Central and Greek scholars within the international scholarly circuit.

Spis treści

1. Amila Buturovic, Death and Dying in Ottoman Bosnia: Cultural Responses, Before and After (1463-1878) / 2. Petronel Zahariuc, The Cult of the Dead in Moldavia (Seventeenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries): Between Liturgical Norm and Social Practice / 3. Gheorghe Lazăr, “The Last Passage”: Commemorative Discourse and Practices in the Testaments of Merchants (Wallachia, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries) / 4. Zoran Ladić, From Fear of Death to the Salvation of the Soul and Eternal Life: Reasons for Composing Last Wills in the East Adriatic (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) / 5. Penka Danova and Elena Kostova, Demise Far from Home: Testaments of Ragusans Who Died in Bulgarian Lands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / 6. Konstantinos Giakoumis, "For a Christian Ending to Our Life": Church Endowments, Commemoration, and Tomb Purchases in the West Balkans (Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) / 7. Elena Bedreag and Mihai Mîrza, Families without Children: Testamentary Norms and Practices among Moldavian Boyars (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) / 8. Mariana Lazăr, Strategies of Succession in the Testaments of the Cantacuzino Family (Wallachia, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) / 9. Mária Lupescu Makó, Between Material and Spiritual Memoria: Last Wills and Testaments in Late Medieval Transylvania (Fifteenth–Mid-Sixteenth Centuries) / 10. J.J. Łabno, Dead but not Departed: The Consolation of the Dangerous Gaze: Funerary Portraits in Early Modern Poland and Roman Egypt  / 11. Aleksandra Koutny-Jones, Portraying the Dead in Early Modern Hungarian and Polish Funerary Traditions / 12. Maria Crăciun, “The Death of the Righteous”: Agency, Memory, Self-Representation, and Identity in Transylvanian Medieval Altarpieces / 13. Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu, Moldavian Eighteenth-Century Diptychs: Prosopographic Sources for Social History / 14. Maria Magdalena Székely, Princely Necropoles of  Moldavia (Fifteen-Sixteen Centuries) / 15. Ştefan S. Gorovei, Lost Monuments: The ‘Death’ of Family Necropoles in Medieval Moldavia