Author

Publication

2002-09-01 - Pennsylvania State University Press

Language

English

Word Count

63,750 words, Guess

Page Count

255 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCGT3170.E34 2002
  • LCCGT3170 .E34 2002

Description

"The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian, or so-called "Long-Haired" Kings from 500 to 800 C.E."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian WorldHardcoverPennsylvania State University Press2002-09-01

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