medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
One book sitting on my bookshelves waiting to be read is 'The Place of the
Dead' eds Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall CUP 2000. Looks like it might
help with the 'ubi sunt' question.
Laura
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From: Aleks <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] Change and decay ...
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear Paul,
>
> This doesn't answer your question directly, but you may find some
interesting
> things relating to time and death
> in:
>
> Schmidt, J-C. 1998. Ghosts in the Middle Ages: the living and the dead in
> medieval society. University of Chicago Press.
>
> especially chapter 8.
>
> Aleks Pluskowski
>
> "M. Paul Bryant-Quinn" wrote:
>
> > 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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