Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe
Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe

Author: Angela Jianu

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-04

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1000901807

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The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For East-Central Europe there are many short studies in various regional languages, mainly on anthropological/ethnographic aspects of the funeral rituals. This is an edited collection of studies by international scholars on the interlocking themes of attitudes and discourses on death, commemorative practices, and inheritance/testamentary strategies in the Balkans and East-Central Europe. These and other related themes are addressed comparatively and cover areas including Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and areas of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria from the perspective of imperial – Ottoman and Habsburg – legacies. Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe contributes to this subject by: linking anthropological/religious/cultural approaches to death to the legal/economic aspects of inheritance/commemoration; adding a still absent East-Central European and Habsburg, Balkan, and Ottoman dimension to the study of death, memorialization, and testaments; and presenting an abundant primary and secondary material in English translation and thus placing research on death and testaments by East-Central and Greek scholars within the international scholarly circuit.

Pro Refrigerio Animae
Pro Refrigerio Animae

Author: Angela Jianu

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032017464

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"The historiography of death, memory and testamentary practices is already abundant for Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For East-Central Europe there are many short studies in various regional languages, mainly on anthropological/ethnographic aspects of funeral ritual. This is an edited collection of studies by international scholars on the interlocking themes of attitudes and discourses on death, commemorative practices and inheritance/testamentary strategies in the Balkans and East-Central Europe. These and other related themes are addressed comparatively and cover areas including Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, areas of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria from the perspective of imperial - Ottoman and Habsburg - legacies. Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe contributes to this subject by: linking anthropologial/religious/cultural approaches to death to the legal/economic aspects of inheritance/commemoration; adding a still absent East-Central European and Habsburg, Balkan, and Ottoman dimension to the study of death, memorialization and testaments; and presenting an abundant primary and secondary material in English translation and thus placing research on death and testaments by East-Central and Greek scholars within the international scholarly circuit"--

Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe
Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe

Author: Aleksandra Koutny-Jones

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9004305254

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In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones explores the emergence of a remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in Poland-Lithuania (1569-1795). Examining why such interests resonated so strongly in the Baroque art of this Commonwealth, she argues that the printing revolution, the impact of the Counter-Reformation, and multiple afflictions suffered by Poland-Lithuania all contributed to a deep cultural concern with mortality. Introducing readers to a range of art, architecture and material culture, this study considers various visual evocations of death including 'Dance of Death' imagery, funerary decorations, coffin portraiture, tomb chapels and religious landscapes. These, Koutny-Jones argues, engaged with wider European cultures of contemplation and commemoration, while also being critically adapted to the specific context of Poland-Lithuania.

Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages
Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages

Author: Gaia Gubbini

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 3110615983

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A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.

The Undivine Comedy
The Undivine Comedy

Author: Teodolinda Barolini

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1992-10-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1400820766

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Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.

Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Author: Michele Cutino

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 311068733X

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This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. biblical and theological poetry in classical meters – from a diachronic perspective. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the doctrinal significance of these compositions and the role that they play in the development of Christian theological ideas and biblical exegesis.

Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe

Author: Miriam Eliav-Feldon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1137447494

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In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.