medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> I wonder if anyone knows of any historiography on something that turns
> up in the section on magic in Gratian's Decretum (C. 26): the idea
> that priests might say a mass for the dead in the name of a person
> who's still alive, in order to make them die more quickly.
In German:
Klaus Schreiner, Tot- und Mordbeten, Totenmesse für Lebende.
Todeswünsche im Gewand mittelalterlicher Frömmigkeit, in; Das Andere
Wahrnehmen. Beiträge zur europäischen Geschichte. August Nitschke zum
65. Geburtstag gewidmet, ed. Martin Kintzinger, Wolfgang Stürner,
Johannes Zahlten (Köln/Weimar/Wien 1991) 335-355.
yours, h.w.
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