Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World

by Bonnie Effros

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027851
• ISBN13: 9780271027852
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"