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>There is a question I have sought very unsuccessfully to answer that is to
>some degree in this area. That is the question of the origin and develop-
>ment of the burial service -- i.e. the lessons and prayers read at grave-
>side. I tried tracing the ones used by Lutherans and by CofE (they are
>very similar, and that I have been able to explain at least to my own
>satisfaction), and I got no further back than mid sixteenth century. At
>the time I was looking for their common roots, I was operating under some
>tight time constraints. I would be plum delighted were some one to trace
>this (these) service(s) (I tend to think there is but one in the fifteenth
>century, but where it came from I've no idea) back into medieval times.
>
>Pax.
>
>Frank Morgret
>15 Towering Hts -- #1206
>St Catharines, Ontario
>CANADA
>L2T 3G7
>
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On medieval burial services, see Frederick Paxton, Christianizing Death,
and my own Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval
France. My colleague Craig Koslofsky has published on Lutheran burial
services: I don't have the references handy, but you could look up his
name.
Megan McLaughlin
Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A.
Phone: 217-244-2084
Fax: 217-333-2297
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