Death in the Middle Ages and early modern time : the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death /
Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in response to death. The medieval and early modern world had to cope with the same questions, but found its...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Series: | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;
v. 16. |
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| Summary: | Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in response to death. The medieval and early modern world had to cope with the same questions, but found its own characteristic answers, as the contributions to this volume illustrate in a myriad of approaches. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 545 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110442304 (acid-free paper) 3110442302 (acid-free paper) |