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A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: Philip Booth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-23 - Publisher: BRILL

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This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.
Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Elaine Stratton Hild
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a
Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 375
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-22 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions,
Do good unto all
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: Timothy G. Fehler
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-25 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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For nearly two millennia, Christians have tried to make sense of the Bible’s reminder that the poor are ‘always among us’. This volume explores the divers
The Moment of Death in Early Modern Europe, c. 1450–1800
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Benedikt Brunner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-06 - Publisher: BRILL

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Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of death,