Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe (Northern World)

Lahtinen, Anu (EDT)/ Korpiola, Mia (EDT)

Brill（2017/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 214 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004284890
• DDC分類 236.10948

Full Description

How did people of the past prepare for death, and how were their preparations affected by religious beliefs or social and economic responsibilities? Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe analyses the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe, adapting religious teachings to local circumstances. The articles span the period from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity allowing an analysis over centuries of religious change that are too often artificially separated in historical study.
Contributors are Dominika Burdzy, Otfried Czaika, Kirsi Kanerva, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Riikka Miettinen, Bertil Nilsson, and Cindy Wood.

Contents

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1 Introduction: Preparing for a Good Death in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
 Anu Lahtinen and Mia Korpiola

2 Restless Dead or Peaceful Cadavers? Preparations for Death and Afterlife in Medieval Iceland
 Kirsi Kanerva

3 William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester (1366-1404) and His Preparations for Death
 Cindy Wood

4 "At Death's Door": The Authority of Deathbed Confessions in Medieval and Early Modern Swedish Law
 Mia Korpiola

5 The Concern for Salvation in the Cities of Lesser Poland in the Sixteenth Century
 Dominika Burdzy

6 Death with an Agenda: Preparing for an Aristocratic Death in Reformation Sweden
 Anu Lahtinen

7 Dying Unprepared in Early Modern Swedish Funeral Sermons
 Otfried Czaika

8 "Lord, have mercy on me": Spiritual Preparations for Suicide in Early Modern Sweden
 Riikka Miettinen

9 Preparing for Death: Concluding Remarks
 Bertil Nilsson

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