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- catalog abstract ""The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian, or so-called "Long-Haired" Kings from 500 to 800 C.E."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world".
- catalog contributor b12644815.
- catalog coverage "France History To 987.".
- catalog coverage "Gaul Antiquities.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian, or so-called "Long-Haired" Kings from 500 to 800 C.E."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references ([213]-246) and index.".
- catalog description "The Symbolic Significance of Clothing for the Dead -- Lay and Clerical Regulation of Grave Goods and Cemeteries -- Grave Markers as Memoria -- Membership in the Kingdom of the Elect -- Christian Liturgy and the Journey to the Next World -- Exchanges Between the Living and the Dead.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 255 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0271021969 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France History To 987.".
- catalog spatial "Gaul Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Gaul".
- catalog subject "393/.09364 21".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies Gaul History.".
- catalog subject "GT3170 .E34 2002".
- catalog subject "Merovingians Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "Merovingians Funeral customs and rites.".
- catalog subject "Merovingians History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Symbolic Significance of Clothing for the Dead -- Lay and Clerical Regulation of Grave Goods and Cemeteries -- Grave Markers as Memoria -- Membership in the Kingdom of the Elect -- Christian Liturgy and the Journey to the Next World -- Exchanges Between the Living and the Dead.".
- catalog title "Burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world".
- catalog title "Caring for body and soul : burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world / Bonnie Effros.".
- catalog type "text".