Caring for body and soul : burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world /

"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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Effros, Bonnie, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2002.
Temas:
To 987
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Gaul > History.
Merovingians > Funeral customs and rites.
Merovingians > History.
Merovingians > Antiquities.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Gaule > Histoire.
Mérovingiens > Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
Mérovingiens > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Antiquities
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Merovingians
Merovingians > Antiquities
Begrafenissen.
Gebruiken.
Merovingen.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Manners & Customs.
France > History > To 987.
Gaul > Antiquities.
Europe > Gaul
France
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references ([213]-246) and index.
ISBN:0271030585
9780271030586

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