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Being with the dead
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ISBN: 1503607763 9781503607767 9780804791311 0804791317 9781503607750 1503607755 Year: 2018 Publisher: Stanford, California

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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead. The premise of Being with the Dead is that we can explore our lives with the dead as a cross-cultural existential a priori out of which the basic forms of historical consciousness emerge. Care for the dead is not just about the symbolic handling of mortal remains; it also points to a necropolitics, the social bond between the dead and living that holds societies together—a shared space or polis where the dead are maintained among the living. Moving from mortuary rituals to literary representations, from the problem of ancestrality to technologies of survival and intergenerational communication, Hans Ruin explores the epistemological, ethical, and ontological dimensions of what it means to be with the dead. His phenomenological approach to key sources in a range of fields gives us a new perspective on the human sciences as a whole.

La mort, les morts dans les sociétés anciennes


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A commentary on Augustine's De cura pro mortuis gerenda : rhetoric in practice
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ISBN: 9789004228221 9789004251281 Year: 2013 Volume: 20 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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In De cura pro mortuis gerenda Augustine interweaves an assessment of burial near the memorial of a martyr with a series of dream narratives. The seeming lack of coherence between argument and narrative in this treatise has puzzled many scholars. Combining an analysis of the overall structure of the argument and a detailed philological commentary, this study shows that Augustine’s text forms a well-composed unity. The study is based on discourse-linguistic and narratological concepts as well as an analysis of the global structure of the narratives. Relying on this combined approach Rose demonstrates how Augustine explores the full breadth of his narrative material in the service of his argument. In addition, this book situates Augustine’s text in its cultural-historical context.

La mort au quotidien dans le monde romain : actes du colloque organisé par l'Université de Paris IV, Paris-Sorbonne, 7-9 octobre 1993
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ISBN: 270180096X 9782701800967 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris : de Boccard,

Death, burial, and afterlife in the biblical world : how the Israelites and their neighbors treated the dead
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ISBN: 1566634016 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): Dee


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Buchführung für die Ewigkeit : totengedenken, verschriftlichung und traditionsbildung im spätmittelalter
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ISBN: 3034011962 9783034011969 Year: 2014 Publisher: Chronos Verlag

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Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval SwitzerlandHow were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the Middle Ages? Based on intertextual relations between necrologies, rent-rolls, and chronicles from Swiss regions, this study shows how commemorating the dead required new techniques of writing that were not only meant to promote salvation, but also helped enforce local lordship. By celebrating the anniversaries of battles and other crucial events, the authorities of the Swiss cantons propagated a historical concept of identity which continues to influence Switzerland's self-perception even today. Rainer Hugener emphasizes the role of religious commemoration for the development of "modern" bureaucracy and offers a new perspective on the founding myths of the Swiss Con-federacy. The book is completed by an exhaustive catalogue of more than 1000 pre-modern necrologies from Swiss monasteries, cathedrals, collegiate and parish churches.


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Ritual, belief, and the dead in early modern Britain and Ireland
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ISBN: 9781107667983 9780521761543 9780511778629 0521761549 9781139223690 1139223690 0511778627 9781139217170 1139209191 1107216702 1280484888 1139221981 9786613579867 1139217178 1139214098 1139220268 1107667984 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period. This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death: what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary beliefs and practices in early modernity.


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Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion : Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials
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ISBN: 3319629298 331962928X Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses produced in the course of infectious disease outbreaks seen as dangerous, not just to the living, but also to the continued existence of society and civilization? Examining cases from the Black Death to Ebola, contributors challenge the predominant idea that a single, universal framework of contagion can explain the political, social and cultural importance and impact of the epidemic corpse. .

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