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Caring for Body and Soul

Caring for Body and Soul

Автор: Bonnie Effros, 280 стр., издатель: "Книга по Требованию", ISBN: 9780271027852

A very thorough and up-to-date study of death and burial in early medieval society. -Guy Halsall, Birkbeck College, University of LondonThe 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 reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian (or so-called long-haired) kings from 500 to 800 C.E. Funerals provided an opportunity for the display of wealth through elaborate ceremonies involving the placement of goods such as weapons, jewelry, and ceramic vessels in graves and the use of aboveground monuments. In the late seventh century, however, these...
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