Medieval Death: Ritual and RepresentationCornell University Press, 1996 - 224 من الصفحات Medieval Death is an absorbing study of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. Drawing on both archaeological and art historical sources, Paul Binski examines pagan and Christian attitudes towards the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual and mortuary practice. The evidence is accumulated from a wide variety of medieval thinkers and images, including the macabre illustrations of the Dance of Death and other popular themes in art and literature, which reflect the medieval obsession with notions of humility, penitence, and the dangers of bodily corruption. The author discusses the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art and examines the development of the medieval tomb, showing the changing attitudes towards the commemoration of the dead between late antiquity and the late Middle Ages. In the final chapter the progress of the soul after death is studied through the powerful descriptions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Dante and other writers and through portrayals of the Last Judgment and the Apocalypse in sculpture and large-scale painting. |
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Illustration Credits page | 7 |
Ways of Dying and Rituals of Death | 29 |
Death and Representation | 70 |
reproduced by courtesy of the Director and University Librarian 31 MS | 114 |
The Macabre | 123 |
Colour Plates between pages 128 and | 129 |
Death and the Afterlife | 164 |
Bibliography | 215 |
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Abbey Abbot Suger Abraham's Bosom afterlife Apocalypse Ariès Arma Christi Augustine Beatific Vision binary Bishop Black Death bodily body Book of Hours burial buried Canterbury Cathedral chantry character Christ Christian church Cistercian clerical contemporary corpse cult culture Dance of Death Dante demons developed doctrine earlier early effigy epitaph eschatology especially fifteenth century fourteenth century French funeral Gothic Heaven Hell Holy idea illustration imagery images important individual King Last Judgement late-medieval Lazarus macabre Mass means medieval art medieval tomb Meiss memory metaphor Middle Ages monastic moriendi motif nature Neoplatonism notion pagan Paradise patrons penitential period person Philippe Ariès Pope portals practice prayer Psalm Psalter punishment Purgatory relics religious representation represented Resurrection revealed ritual Roman royal Saint-Denis saints salvation sense shrines sins social soul sphere spiritual texts theme thirteenth century Three Dead Three Living transi tomb twelfth century visual William de Brailes