medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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:
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> 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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