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  • Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe: Regular, Repellant, and Redemptive Death

    Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe by Schell, Sarah;

    Regular, Repellant, and Redemptive Death

    Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 1 December 2025

    • ISBN 9781041181231
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 246x174 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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    Long description:

    Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Office of the Dead was a familiar liturgical ritual, and its perceived importance and utility are evident in its regular inclusion in devotional compilations, which crossed the boundaries between lay and religious readers. The Office was present in all medieval deaths: as a focus for private contemplation, a site of public performance, a reassuring ritual, and a voice for the bereaved. Examining the images at the Office of the Dead and related written, visual, and material evidence, this book explores the relationship of these images to the text in which they are embedded and to the broader experiences of and aspirations for death.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction, The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy, The Office of the Dead in Devotional Books, Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice, Seeing into the Office: Imagining, Reader as Body, Hearing Community: Image and Liturgy, Repellent Death: Time, Rot and the Death of the Body, Death-tide: Time and decay of the body, 'Nothing more base and abominable': The Corpse, Disruption: The Lively Corpse, Dry Bones: Death in Life, The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus and Death Undone, Living Death: Job as the Social Body, The Undead: Lazarus and the Promise of Resurrection, Conclusions, Bibliography, Bibliography: Manuscripts.

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