Death and Dying in the Middle Ages
Contributors: Edelgard E. Dubruck (Editor); Barbara I. Gusick (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780820441276
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; History; Death And Dying (Sociological Aspects); Special Subjects In Literature; Death / Grief / Consolation; Social history; Social aspects; Medieval, 500-1500; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Sociology - General; Death; Death in literature
First sentence: A considerable bibliography on death and dying has been assembled in the last fifty years, when, simultaneously, and for good reason, the number of retired persons has risen by seventy-one percent.
Description: "Death and Dying in the Middle Ages examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies. It studies literary and artistic imaging and the underlying philosophical and theological convictions that shaped medieval attitudes toward death.

A collection of eighteen articles by contributors in the Western hemisphere, this new compendium on death and its implications will interest the specialist, the student and teacher of cultural history, religion, folklore, psychology, literature, and art, and also the general public."--BOOK JACKET.