1st Edition
Death in Medieval Europe Death Scripted and Death Choreographed
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1-Writing and Commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England
Jill Hamilton Clements
2-From Powerful Agents to Subordinate Objects? The Restless Dead in 13th- and 14th-Century Iceland
Kirsi Kanerva
3-Animated Corpses and Bodies with Power in the Scholastic Age
Winston Black
4-Women, Dance, Death, and Lament in Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Examples
Cynthia Sautter
5-Wills and Testaments
Francine Michaud
6-Spectacular Death: Capital Punishment in Medieval English Towns
James Davis
7-Ghostly Knights: Kings’ Funerals in 14th Century Europe and the Emergence of an International Style
Mikhail A. Boytsov
8-Death of Clergymen: Popes and Cardinals’ Death Rituals
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
9-A Dead Zone in the Historiography of Death in the Middle Ages: The Sentiment of Suspicious Death
Franck Collard
10-Registering Deaths and Causes of Death in Late Medieval Milan
Ann G. Carmichael
Biography
Joëlle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Schism (1378) (2008), and Avignon and its Papacy (1309-1417): Popes, Institutions, and Society (2015).
"This is an excellent collection of essays which will significantly increase our knowledge and understanding of medieval views on and experiences of death. Of particular value is the breadth and scope of the essays presented, ranging from discussions of commemoration and ritualistic aspects of death and capital punishment over to differing cultural perceptions of death beyond Christian to Jewish and Muslim communities. As such this volume will be welcome by anyone interested in medieval daily life and culture, academics and students alike."
- Miriam Muller, University of Birmingham, UK
"Death in Medieval Europe brings together an impressive array of recent literature that does, indeed, “survey the cultural effects of death” in the Middle Ages (6). Together, the work of these ten scholars demonstrates the importance of death, dying and its attendant processes and beliefs to different societies throughout the era."
- Heather Stein, ScienceDirect
