Medieval Death: Ritual and RepresentationBritish Museum Press, 1996 - 224 من الصفحات This is a study of the social, theological and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the Reformation in the early 16th century. Drawing on both archaeological and art historical sources, the book examines pagan and Christian attitudes towards the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual and mortuary practice. |
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Illustration Credits page 6 | 7 |
Ways of Dying and Rituals of Death | 29 |
Death and Representation | 70 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abbey Abbot Suger Abraham's Bosom afterlife Apocalypse Ariès Arma Christi Augustine Beatific Vision binary Bishop Black Death bodily body Book of Hours brass burial buried canopied Canterbury Cathedral chantry character Christ Christian church Cistercian clerical contemporary corpse cult culture Dance of Death Dante developed devotional doctrine earlier early effigy epitaph eschatology especially fourteenth century French funeral Gothic Heaven Hell idea illustration imagery images important individual King Last Judgement late-medieval Lazarus macabre Mass medieval art medieval tomb memory metaphor Middle Ages monastic moriendi motif nature Neoplatonism notion pagan Paradise patrons penitential period person Philippe Ariès portals practice prayer Psalm Psalter punishment Purgatory relics religious representation represented Resurrection revealed ritual Roman royal Saint-Denis saints salvation sense shrines social soul sphere spiritual texts theme thirteenth century Three Dead Three Living transi tomb twelfth century Virgin Mary visual Westminster Westminster Abbey William de Brailes