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1 online resource (529 p.) |
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Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Ser |
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Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Ser
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| Contents |
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Dying, Death, and Commemoration, 1350-1700 -- 1 Context: Trajectories of the Historiography of Death and Commemoration -- 1.1 Historical Demography, Mentalities and Mortality -- 1.2 The Black Death, Change and Continuity -- 1.3 Discontinuities? Reformation Revisionism, Religious Cultures and Death -- 2 Current Themes and the Structure of This Volume -- 2.1 Ritual and Performativity |
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2.2 The Body, Its Treatment, Representation and Meaning -- 2.3 Materiality, Material Culture and Sacred Space -- 2.4 From Mentalité to Emotion -- Part 1 Dying, Death, Burial and the Afterlife -- Chapter 1 Changing Western European Visions of Christian Afterlives, 1350-1700: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory -- 1 Transition to the Afterlife: Particular and Last Judgement -- 2 Shifting Geographies of the Afterlife, 1350-1700 -- 3 The Realms of the Afterlife: The Fall and Rise of Purgatory -- 3.1 Heaven -- 3.2 Hell -- 3.3 Purgatory -- 4 Conclusions |
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Chapter 2 Preparations for a Christian Death: The Later Middle Ages -- 1 Remember to Die -- 2 Mapping the Eschatological Landscape -- 3 The Cultural Turn to the Macabre -- 4 Practical Planning -- 5 The Hour -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Deathbed and Burial Rituals in Late Medieval Cathol -- 1 The Deathbed -- 2 The Ordo Commendationis Anime -- 3 Preparation of the Body -- 4 The Office of the Dead -- 5 Burial Location -- 6 The Funeral and Associated Liturgies and Practices -- 7 Grief and Mourning -- 8 After the Burial |
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Chapter 4 "Do This in Remembrance of Me": Offerings, Identity, and Bills in the Medieval English Royal Funeral -- 1 Preparing the Body -- 2 The Procession: Navigating Purgatory and Society -- 3 Paying the Bills -- 4 The Slight of Hand: The Presentation of Achievements -- 5 Conclusions -- Chapter 5 The Reformation of Burial in the Protestant Churches -- 1 Rewriting Burial in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- 2 Location -- 3 Sermons and Services -- 4 Public Performances of Grief -- 5 Death, Burial, and Identity -- 6 Conclusion |
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Chapter 6 The Counter Reformation and Preparations for Death in the European Roman Catholic Church, 1550-1700 -- 1 Handbooks for Dying: Advice Books and Devotional Treatises -- 2 Popular Practices of Preparation: Confraternity Membership and Indulgences -- 2.1 Confraternities and Support of the Dying -- 2.2 Indulgences -- 3 Last Things: The Rituals of the Deathbed -- 3.1 Making a Will and Bequests -- 3.1.1 Salutation and Gaining of Intercession -- 3.1.2 Burial and Funeral Arrangements -- 3.1.3 Post-mortem Intercessory Arrangements -- 3.2 Rites of Passage: Sacraments and Prayerful Consolation |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Memorialization -- Europe
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Mourning customs -- Europe
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Memorialization
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Mourning customs
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tingle, Elizabeth
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| ISBN |
9789004443433 |
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9004443436 |
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