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- catalog abstract ""Death and Dying in the Middle Ages examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies. It studies literary and artistic imaging and the underlying philosophical and theological convictions that shaped medieval attitudes toward death. A collection of eighteen articles by contributors in the Western hemisphere, this new compendium on death and its implications will interest the specialist, the student and teacher of cultural history, religion, folklore, psychology, literature, and art, and also the general public."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11545474.
- catalog contributor b11545475.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Death and Dying in the Middle Ages examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies. It studies literary and artistic imaging and the underlying philosophical and theological convictions that shaped medieval attitudes toward death.".
- catalog description "A collection of eighteen articles by contributors in the Western hemisphere, this new compendium on death and its implications will interest the specialist, the student and teacher of cultural history, religion, folklore, psychology, literature, and art, and also the general public."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-505) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Edelgard E. DuBruck -- pt. 1. Facts, Testimony, and Ritual. The Doctor and Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Yves Ferroul. The Role of the Beguines in Caring for the Ill, the Dying, and the Dead / Christine Guidera. The Altar of the Holy Cross and the Ideal of Adam's Progeny: "ut paradysiace loca possideat regionis" / Kornelia Imesch -- pt. 2. Christian Eschatology and Thanatology. What Happens to Us When We Die? Bernardino of Siena on 'The Four Last Things' / Franco Mormando. Aquinas's Dilemma about Knowledge After Death / Patrick Quinn. In the Face of Death: Jean Delumeau on Late-Medieval Fears and Hopes / Thomas Worcester. Between Life and Death: the Journey in the Otherworld / Peter M. De Wilde. From the Bosom of Abraham to the Beatific Vision: On Some Medieval Images of the Soul's Journey to Heaven / Anca Bratu-Minott -- pt. 3. Miracles, Conversions, and Transmutations 'sub specie aeternitatis'.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 515 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Death and dying in the Middle Ages.".
- catalog identifier "0820441279 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Death and dying in the Middle Ages.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 45.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the humanities ; vol. 45".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog relation "Death and dying in the Middle Ages.".
- catalog subject "306.9/09 21".
- catalog subject "Art, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Death Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog subject "Death Social aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Death in art.".
- catalog subject "Death in literature.".
- catalog subject "HQ1073 .D395 1999".
- catalog subject "Literature, Medieval History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Social history Medieval, 500-1500.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Edelgard E. DuBruck -- pt. 1. Facts, Testimony, and Ritual. The Doctor and Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Yves Ferroul. The Role of the Beguines in Caring for the Ill, the Dying, and the Dead / Christine Guidera. The Altar of the Holy Cross and the Ideal of Adam's Progeny: "ut paradysiace loca possideat regionis" / Kornelia Imesch -- pt. 2. Christian Eschatology and Thanatology. What Happens to Us When We Die? Bernardino of Siena on 'The Four Last Things' / Franco Mormando. Aquinas's Dilemma about Knowledge After Death / Patrick Quinn. In the Face of Death: Jean Delumeau on Late-Medieval Fears and Hopes / Thomas Worcester. Between Life and Death: the Journey in the Otherworld / Peter M. De Wilde. From the Bosom of Abraham to the Beatific Vision: On Some Medieval Images of the Soul's Journey to Heaven / Anca Bratu-Minott -- pt. 3. Miracles, Conversions, and Transmutations 'sub specie aeternitatis'.".
- catalog title "Death and dying in the Middle Ages / edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick.".
- catalog type "text".