>S Salih wrote:
>Hoping that list-members may be able to fill one of the
>many gaps in my expertise: one of my students needs
>a reading list on medieval death and funeral rituals. I am
>vaguely aware that there's quite a lot of material out
>there, but can anyone tell me of anything particularly
>reliable, or exciting, or provocative?
>thanks in advance,
>Sarah Salih
Sarah:
These are , for the most part, broad surveys of changing
practices. Useful for overviews.
Frederick S. Paxton Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual
Process in Early Medieval Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press. 1990
Edelgard E. Dubruck, Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Peter Lang
Publishers: 1999
Herman Braet and and Werner Verbeke, eds. Death in the Middle Ages.
Mediaevalia Lovaniensia . ser. 1, stud 9, Leuven, 1983.
Donald Bullough. "Buria, Community, and Belief in the Early Medieval
West", in Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society.
Studied presented to J. M. wallace-Hadrill, ed. Patrick Wormald
Oxford, 1983, pp175-210.
T.S.R. Boase Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgement and
Remembrance.
Library of Medieval Civilization. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
You might also check, for brief overview of late MA practices;
Section D; "Now and at the Hour of Our Death" in Eamon Duffy The
Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400- 1580.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1992
Uselful for dis-lodging blocked psyches about methods of
studying death and death rituals:
Richard Huntington and Peter Metcalf. Celebrations of Death: the
Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual. Cambridge, 1979.
Your student should get a sense of the standard liturgical
texts accompanying the parting of the soul from the body, the burial
service, the interment, etc:
See: John Harper: The Forms and Orders of western Liturgy from the
Tenth to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Calrendon Press. 1991 , Pt
II, Ch6, p105ff The Office of the Dead.
Alfred C. Rush. Death and Burial in Christian Antiquity. Washington,
D.C.: Catholic University of America Studies in Christian Antiquity
1, 1941, repr. 1977.
ALSO:
Caroline Walker Bynum Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the
Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press 2000.
William J. Dohar. The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership: The
Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century. Middle Ages Series
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. ( marginally
uselful for your topic, but excellent for bibliographic pillaging.)
I hope these are of some use.
Josef gulka
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