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Death and dying in the Middle Ages / edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick.
LIBRA HQ1073 .D395 1999
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Van Pelt Library HQ1073 .D395 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 45.
- Studies in the humanities, 0742-6712 ; vol. 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects--History.
- Death.
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Social history--Medieval.
- Death in literature.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Death in art.
- Art, Medieval.
- Death--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Death--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Death--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Death--Social aspects.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 515 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [1999]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Facts, Testimony, and Ritual 29
- The Doctor and Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Yves Ferroul 31
- The Role of the Beguines in Caring for the Ill, the Dying, and the Dead / Christine Guidera 51
- The Altar of the Holy Cross and the Ideal of Adam's Progeny: "ut paradysiace loca possideat regionis" / Kornelia Imesch 73
- Part 2 Christian Eschatology and Thanatology 107
- What Happens to Us When We Die? Bernardino of Siena on 'The Four Last Things' / Franco Mormando 109
- Aquinas's Dilemma about Knowledge After Death / Patrick Quinn 143
- In the Face of Death: Jean Delumeau on Late-Medieval Fears and Hopes / Thomas Worcester 157
- Between Life and Death: the Journey in the Otherworld / Peter M. De Wilde 175
- From the Bosom of Abraham to the Beatific Vision: On Some Medieval Images of the Soul's Journey to Heaven / Anca Bratu-Minott 189
- Part 3 Miracles, Conversions, and Transmutations 'sub specie aeternitatis' 219
- Travelling-Companion in the Journey of Life: Saint Barbara of Nicomedia in a Devotio Moderna Context / Mathilde Van Dijk 221
- Saints as Helpers in Dying: the Hairy Holy Women Mary Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Wilgefortis in the Iconography of the Late Middle Ages / Ilse E. Friesen 239
- 'Virtual Death' in the Middle Ages: the Apotheosis of Mary Magdalene in Popular Preaching / Franco Mormando 257
- Up from the Dead: Magic and Miracle / Martha Rampton 275
- Part 4 The Late-Medieval Literature on Death: Poetry and Drama 293
- Death: Poetic Perception and Imagination (Continental Europe) / Edelgard E. DuBruck 295
- The Ultimate Nothing: Death and the End of Work in Late-Medieval English Lyrics / Barbara I. Gusick 315
- Death and Resurrection in the Towneley Lazarus / Barbara I. Gusick 331
- The Death of Christ on the Late-Medieval Stage: A Theater of Salvation / Edelgard E. DuBruck 355
- Part 5 The Art of Death: Late-Medieval Iconography 377
- Dying Well: the Ars moriendi and the Dormition of the Virgin / Donald F. Duclow 379
- The Death Desired: Books of Hours and the Medieval Funeral / Roger S. Wieck 431.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-505) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820441279
- OCLC:
- 39182251
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