Dear Amy,
I have investigated the attitudes of French people toward dying & dead
body in 14th and 15th centuries (pro gradu -treatise, 1998). I'd like to
recommend some of the works that I have used in my study:
Aries, Philippe: L'homme devant la mort. I-II. Paris 1977.
Aries, Philippe: Images de l'homme devant la mort. Paris 1985.
Choron, James: Death and Western Thought. New York 1963.
Cohen, Kathleen: Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: the Transit Tomb in
the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. London 1973.
Dubruck, Edelgard: The Theme of Death on French Poetry of the Middle
Ages and Renaissance. London 1973.
Death in the Middle Ages. Ed. by Herman Braet and Werner Verbeke. Leuven
1982.
Male, Emile: L'Art religieux de la fin du moyen age en France. Etude sur
l'iconographie du moye age et sur ses sources inspiration. Paris 1949.
Panofsky, Erwin: Tomb Sculpture. Four Lectures on its Changing Aspects
from Ancient Egypt to Bernini. New York 1984.
Vovelle, Michel: La mort et l'Occident de 1300 a nos jours. Paris 1983.
Best wishes,
Hannele Kiiskinen
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Hannele Kiiskinen
Department of Cultural History
University of Turku
FINLAND
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