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1 online resource (359 p.) |
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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Death And Funerary Practices -- Testaments, Property, and Family -- Funerary Art, Monuments, and Memorialization -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part 1: Death and Funerary Practices -- 1. Death and Dying in Ottoman Bosnia: Cultural Responses, Before and After (1463-1878) -- Death in Theory and Method -- Health and Death in Ottoman Bosnia -- Bosnian Muslims and Death -- Gravestones and Commemorative Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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2. The Cult of the Dead in Moldavia (Seventeenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries): Between Liturgical Norm and Social Practice -- Notes -- 3. ""The Last Passage"": Commemorative Discourse and Practices in the Testaments of Merchants (Wallachia, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries) -- For Every Man's Life Must Reckon with Death, It Is Well Known -- The Spectacle of Death -- The Anxiety around the Body -- For the Solace of my Soul"": Post-Mortem Commemorations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part 2: Testaments, Property, and Family |
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4. 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) -- Gender and Class: Communal Statutory Laws and the Democratization of Will Writing -- Fear of (Sudden) Death and Hope for the Salvation of the Soul: The Main Reasons for Composing Last Wills in the East Adriatic Communes -- Other Reasons for Composing Last Wills -- The Health Condition of Testators -- Old Age -- Pilgrimages -- Joining the Army and Departure to War -- Medical Reasons and Plague Epidemics -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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5. Demise Far from Home: Testaments of Ragusans Who Died in Bulgarian Lands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- Dubrovnik's Agreements with Its Eastern Neighbours -- The Contents of Ragusan Wills: Form, Structure, and Clauses -- Clauses in Ragusan Wills -- Donations for the Salvation of the Soul -- The Testators' Property Status and Types of Donated Property -- Heirs and Executors of the Will -- The Legalization of the Wills of Ragusans Who Died in Bulgarian Lands -- Conclusions -- Annexe 1: Table of Ragusans Who Died in Bulgarian lands -- Notes |
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6. ""For a Christian Ending to Our Life"": Church Endowments, Commemoration, and Tomb Purchases in Albania and the West Balkans (Thirteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) -- Funerary Customs and Commemorative Practices -- Death-Related Capital Formation and Redistribution -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 7. Families without Children: Testamentary Norms and Practices among Moldavian Boyars (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) -- The Sociopolitical Context -- The Sources -- Methodology -- Bequests at The Time of Death -- Patrimonial Succession When There Were No Direct Heirs -- Widowhood and Reciprocal Wills |
| Summary |
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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The Status of the Widow |
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Death -- Europe, Eastern
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Death -- Europe, Central
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Europe, Central -- History
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Death.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Central Europe.
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Eastern Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lazăr, Gheorghe
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| ISBN |
9781000901801 |
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1000901807 |
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