Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed
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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed
Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

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Joelle Rollo-Koster (Contributor)  

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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages. Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death, and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland, and Spain. Together these chapters discuss how death was ritualised and choreographed, but also how it was expressed in writing throughout various documentary sources including wills and death registries. In each instance, records are analysed through a cultural framework to better understand the importance of the authors of death and their audience. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period. 4 Tables, black and white
Joelle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Schism (1378) (2008), and Avignon and its Papacy (1309-1417): Popes, Institutions, and Society (2015).
  • Contributor: Joelle Rollo-Koster
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138802131
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 362
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2016-10-10
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Joelle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Schism (1378) (2008), and Avignon and its Papacy (1309-1417): Popes, Institutions, and Society (2015).

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