Identity, Commemoration and the Art of Dying Well: Exploring the Relationship between the Ars Moriendi Tradition andthe Material Culture of Death in Gloucestershire, c.1350-1700A.D.

Identity, Commemoration and the Art of Dying Well: Exploring the Relationship between the Ars Moriendi Tradition and the Material Culture of Death in Gloucestershire, c.1350-1700A.D. This study considers how the treatment of death in related forms of material culture contributed to the definition of elite identity and the constitution of power structures throughout the changes which took place in England c.1350-1700. It examines the funerary material culture of a single region, Gloucestershire, alongside the ideal of 'dying well', as presented in the ars moriendi texts, to show how the pious death and its material expression formed a focus of competition for affluent elites. Autor: Kirsty Owen Wydawnictwo: BAR Publishing Rok wydania: 2010 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 316 Wymiary: 21 x 29.7 x 2.2 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781407304816