MEDIEVAL DEATH: RITUAL AND REPRESENTATION
by Paul Binski
Published by British Museum Press. 1st thus. 2001
Slightly better than very good condition. An absorbing study of the social, theological and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. The author examines pagan and Christian attitudes towards the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual and mortuary practice, and the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and colour plates.
Very slight fading to rear cover. Initials and date in ink to half-title page. Else, a lovely copy.
ISBN: 0714128031
Stock no. 1828016
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
- CHRISTIANITY
- ART HISTORY
