> >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
>
> Just in English? Here are a few things to start with:
> Elizabeth A. R. Brown, "Death and the Human Body in the Later Middle Ages:
> The Legislation of Boniface VIII on the Division of the Corpse," Viator 12
> (1981): 221-70
> Frederick Paxton, Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in
> Early Medieval Europe
> Megan McLaughlin, Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early
> Medieval France
> Patrick Geary, Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages
> Paul Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation
To this list, I might add T.S.R. Boase, Death in the Middle Ages:
Mortality, Judgment and Remembrance, Library of Medieval
Civilization, London, Thames and Hudson, 1972. Not the most recent
and quite general, but nevertheless interesting.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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