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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Symbolic Significance of Clothing for the Dead
  • Lay and Clerical Regulation of Grave Goods and Cemeteries
  • Grave Markers as Memoria
  • Membership in the Kingdom of the Elect
  • Christian Liturgy and the Journey to the Next World
  • Exchanges Between the Living and the Dead.

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