A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700
A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700 by Philip Booth, Elizabeth Tingle
2020 | ISBN: 9004361235 | English | 532 pages | True PDF | 67 MB
2020 | ISBN: 9004361235 | English | 532 pages | True PDF | 67 MB
This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Examining attitudes to death from a range of disciplinary perspectives, it synthesises current trends in scholarship, challenging the old view that the Black Death and the Protestant Reformations fundamentally altered ideas about death. Instead, it shows how people prepared for death; how death and dying were imagined in art and literature; and how practices and beliefs appeared, disappeared, changed, or strengthened over time as different regions and communities reacted to the changing world around them. Overall, it serves as an indispensable introduction to the subject of death, burial, and commemoration in thirteenth to eighteenth century Europe.