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approaching death in antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Brepols
Language
English
Pages
346

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On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Table of Contents

Part I :
Coping with old age and death :
views and values --
Viewing the old :
recording and respecting the elderly at Rome and in the empire -- Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence
The elderly children of Greece and Rome -- Tim Parkin
Representing older women :
hersilia, veturia, Virgio Vestalis Maxima -- Katariina Mustakallio
The changing face of death :
the iconography of the personification of death of the early Middle Ages -- Jill Bradley
'I wish my body to hallowed ground' :
Testamentary orders of the Burghers of late Medieval Pressburg about their own burial -- Judit Majorossy -- Part II :
Social meaning of old age and death --
Old age as a principle of social organization :
Gerousiai in the Poleis of Hellenistic and Roman southern Asia Minor -- Ennio Bauer
The massacre of old men by the Gauls in 390 BC and the social meaning of old age in early Rome -- Aleksandr Koptev
What happened to aged priests in the late Middle Ages? -- Kirsi Salonen
Coping with old age in Medieval Hungarian towns -- Katalin Szende
Burials and politics of the living and the dead in Scotland and Pomerania in the high Middle Ages :
the case to two Cistercian monasteries -- Emilia Jamroziak -- Part III :
Coping with death :
remembrance and oblivion --
No place for the dead :
Ludi Saeculares of 17 BC and the purificatory cults of May as part of the Roman ritual year -- Jussi Rantala
Disease, death, destiny :
the healer as Soter in miraculous cures -- Ildikó Csepregi
Medical perspectives on death in late Medieval and early modern Europe -- Iona McCleery
Who deserves the crown of Martydom?
Martyrs in the Crusade ideology of Jacques de Vitry (1160/70-1240) -- Mikka Tamminen
Rituals and reputation :
immature death in the fourteenth-century canonization processes -- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Pulpits and tombs in Renaissance Florence -- Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Turnhout
Series
History of daily life -- v. 2, History of daily life -- v. 2.

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.90940901
Library of Congress
HQ1064.E8 O5 2011, HQ1061

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Pagination
xix, 346 pages
Number of pages
346

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28388822M
ISBN 10
2503532160
ISBN 13
9782503532165
OCLC/WorldCat
756282719

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