A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, C. 1300-1700

by Philip Booth

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Examining attitudes to death from a range of disciplinary perspectives, it synthesises current trends in scholarship, challenging the old view that the Black Death and the Protestant Reformations fundamentally altered ideas about death. Instead, it shows how people prepared for death; how death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004361235
• ISBN13: 9789004361232
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"