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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages
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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages Hardcover - 1999

by Edelgard E. Dubruck (Editor); Barbara I. Gusick (Editor)

From the publisher

"Death and Dying in the Middle Ages" examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies. It studies literary and artistic imaging and the underlying philosophical and theological convictions that shaped medieval attitudes toward death. A collection of eighteen articles by contributors in the Western hemisphere, this new compendium on death and its implications will interest the specialist, the student and teacher of cultural history, religion, folklore, psychology, literature, and art, and also the general public.

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A considerable bibliography on death and dying has been assembled in the last fifty years, when, simultaneously, and for good reason, the number of retired persons has risen by seventy-one percent.

Details

  • Title Death and Dying in the Middle Ages
  • Author Edelgard E. Dubruck (Editor); Barbara I. Gusick (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 515
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W, New York
  • Date November 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780820441276 / 0820441279
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-20807
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.909

About the author

The Editors: Edelgard E. DuBruck, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, is Professor Emerita of French and Humanities at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan. She was the recipient of the Michigan Academy Award and was invited to lecture in England, Germany, and at the Sorbonne. She founded and edited "Fifteenth-Century Studies" (volumes 1 through 23) and organized three international congresses in Europe. Among her publications are "The Theme of Death in French Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," a critical edition of the "Passion Isabeau" (1983) (Peter Lang, 1990), and "Aspects of Fifteenth-Century Society in the German Carnival Comedies," as well as many articles and book reviews.
Barbara I. Gusick is Assistant Professor of English at Troy State University (Dothan). She received her Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago and has published essays on medieval drama and presented papers on death and dying at international conferences, including the Fifteenth-Century Congress held in Salzburg, Austria, and the International Medieval congresses in Leeds, United Kingdom.

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