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Learning to die in London, 1380-1540 /

Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s--just a generation after the Black Death--and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Midd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Appleford, Amy, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2015.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Quotations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Spiritual Governance and the Lay Household: The Visitation of the Sick; Chapter 2. Dying Generations: The Dance of Death; Chapter 3. Self-Care and Lay Asceticism: Learn to Die; Chapter 4. Wounded Texts and Worried Readers: The Book of the Craft of Dying; Chapter 5. The Exercise of Death in Henrician England; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments. 
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