medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear List Members,
I'm working on Siôn Cent, a 15th century Welsh poet whose poetry frequently
includes (among other things ...) extended references to the *ubi sunt*
topos and detailed descriptions of the condition of the body after death. In
`The image and the self', *Framing Medieval Bodies*, edd. Sarah Kay and Miri
Rubin (Manchester and New York, 1994) pp. 84–5, Michael Camille states
`[...] the body was not thought to be truly dead, its spirit separated from
the body, until a year after burial. Only when all the flesh had left it
and it was nothing, nobody, was it `Death''.
He does not give a source for this belief - can anyone help? Who is doing
Death at the moment?! And can anyone suggest a good summary of the
development of the *ubi sunt* thing in medieval literature?
Ever in your debt,
Paul
M.P. Bryant-Quinn
Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd
Aberystwyth
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