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Just some additions: David d'Avray, Death and the Prince. Memorial Preaching before 1350 (Oxford 1994) M. Vovelle, La mort en Occident (can't remember bibliographical details nor do I remember if it has or hasn't been translated to English) Mirrors of Mortality. Studies in the Social History of Death. Ed. by Joachim Whaley (London 1981). Not strictly Middle Ages, but includes something medieval too, such as Ronald C. Finucane's 'Sacred Corpse, Profane Carrion: Social Ideas and Death Rituals in the Later Middle Ages.' Cheers, Jussi Hanska At 11:58 PM 24.2.2000 -0500, you wrote: > > >>S Salih wrote: > > >>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 > > >Sarah: > These are , for the most part, broad surveys of changing >practices. Useful for overviews. > >Frederick S. Paxton Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual >Process in Early Medieval Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell >University Press. 1990 > > >Edelgard E. Dubruck, Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Peter Lang >Publishers: 1999 > >Herman Braet and and Werner Verbeke, eds. Death in the Middle Ages. >Mediaevalia Lovaniensia . ser. 1, stud 9, Leuven, 1983. > >Donald Bullough. "Buria, Community, and Belief in the Early Medieval >West", in Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society. >Studied presented to J. M. wallace-Hadrill, ed. Patrick Wormald >Oxford, 1983, pp175-210. > >T.S.R. Boase Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgement and >Remembrance. > Library of Medieval Civilization. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. > >You might also check, for brief overview of late MA practices; >Section D; "Now and at the Hour of Our Death" in Eamon Duffy The >Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400- 1580. >New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1992 > > > Uselful for dis-lodging blocked psyches about methods of >studying death and death rituals: > >Richard Huntington and Peter Metcalf. Celebrations of Death: the >Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual. Cambridge, 1979. > > > Your student should get a sense of the standard liturgical >texts accompanying the parting of the soul from the body, the burial >service, the interment, etc: >See: John Harper: The Forms and Orders of western Liturgy from the >Tenth to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Calrendon Press. 1991 , Pt >II, Ch6, p105ff The Office of the Dead. > >Alfred C. Rush. Death and Burial in Christian Antiquity. Washington, >D.C.: Catholic University of America Studies in Christian Antiquity >1, 1941, repr. 1977. > >ALSO: > >Caroline Walker Bynum Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the >Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of >Pennsylvania Press 2000. > >William J. Dohar. The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership: The >Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century. Middle Ages Series >Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. ( marginally >uselful for your topic, but excellent for bibliographic pillaging.) > >I hope these are of some use. >Josef gulka > >Josef Gulka >[log in to unmask] > Tel: 215- 732-8420 >Fax (215) 732-8420 > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%