Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Writing and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England -- Written in heaven: the model for writing the dead -- Memorial books and libri vitae -- Salvation written in stone: Anglo-Saxon memorial inscriptions -- From tomb to manuscript: Anglo-Saxon epitaphs -- Writing the special dead: relic tags and lists -- Conclusion -- 2. From powerful agents to subordinate objects? The restless dead in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iceland -- Introduction -- The case of Glámr the Revenant: unclean spirit as the reanimator of the dead -- Christian influences in the case of Glámr the Revenant -- The subordinate dead in Eddic poetry and fornaldarsögur -- Demonized practice of (pseudo)pagan magic? -- Latin necromancy in Iceland -- Waking up the dead in the poetic tradition -- Who are the awakened and how do they behave? -- Concluding remarks -- 3. Animated corpses and bodies with power in the scholastic age -- Explaining medieval revenants -- Mummies and mumia -- Cruentation -- Dissection -- Corpses and scholastic theology -- 4. Women, dance, death, and lament in medieval Spain and the Mediterranean: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim examples -- Official traditions in overview -- Christian and Islamic stances to the practice -- Medieval processional and graveside practices -- Considering ritual -- considering history -- Conclusion -- 5. Wills and testaments -- The Merovingian era to the twelfth-century shift -- The consolidation of purgatory and testamentary practice -- Conclusion -- 6. Spectacular death: capital punishment in medieval English towns -- 7. Ghostly knights: kings' funerals in fourteenth-century Europe and the emergence of an international style.

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Death in medieval Europe: death scripted and death choreographed

Rollo-Koster, Joelle

Rollo-Koster, Joelle

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Writing the dead : text and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England / Jill Hamilton Clements -- From powerful agents to subordinate objects? : the restless dead in 13th- and 14th-century Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva -- Animated corpses and bodies with power in the scholastic age / Winston Black -- Women, dance, death, and lament in medieval Spain and the Mediterranean : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim examples / Cynthia Sautter -- Wills and testaments / Francine Michaud -- Spectacular death : capital punishment in medieval English towns / James Davis -- Ghostly knights : kings' funerals in 14th century Europe and the emergence of an international style / Mikhail A. Boytsov -- Death of clergymen : popes and cardinals' death rituals / Joelle Rollo-Koster -- A dead zone in the historiography of death in the Middle Ages : the sentiment of suspicious death / Franck Collard -- Registering deaths and causes of death in late medieval Milan / Ann G. Carmichael.

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Death in medieval Europe: death scripted and death choreographed

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle; George Routledge & Sons

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle; George Routledge & Sons

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Writing the dead : text and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England / Jill Hamilton Clements -- From powerful agents to subordinate objects? : the restless dead in 13th- and 14th-century Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva -- Animated corpses and bodies with power in the scholastic age / Winston Black -- Women, dance, death, and lament in medieval Spain and the Mediterranean : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim examples / Cynthia Sautter -- Wills and testaments / Francine Michaud -- Spectacular death : capital punishment in medieval English towns / James Davis -- Ghostly knights : kings' funerals in 14th century Europe and the emergence of an international style / Mikhail A. Boytsov -- Death of clergymen : popes and cardinals' death rituals / Joëlle Rollo-Koster -- A dead zone in the historiography of death in the Middle Ages : the sentiment of suspicious death / Franck Collard -- Registering deaths and causes of death in late medieval Milan / Ann G. Carmichael

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