Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe : : Regular, Repellant, and Redemptive Death / / Sarah Schell.

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Office of the Dead was a familiar liturgical ritual, and i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy
  • 2. Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice
  • 3. Repellent Death: Time, Rot, and the Death of the Body
  • 4. The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus, and Death Undone
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Manuscripts
  • General Index