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Children, Death and Burial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Children, Death and Burial

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-31
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  • Publisher: Oxbow Books

Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult–child relationships and interactions across the life course. The contextualisation and integration of the data collected, both in the field and in the laboratory, enables more nuanced understandings to be gain...

Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices

This volume explores the response of the living when dealing with the death of a child. Papers focus on juvenile burial practices in Europe and the Near East during recent prehistory and protohistory. The interpretation of normative, atypical or deviant is interrogated based on the context of the burials and the intentionality of the practice.

Ministry to the Sick and Dying in the Late Medieval Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Ministry to the Sick and Dying in the Late Medieval Church

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023
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  • Publisher: CUA Press

The focus of this volume is on ministry to the sick and dying in the later Middle Ages, especially providing them with the sacraments. Medieval writers linked illness to sin and its forgiveness. The priest, as physician of souls, was expected to heal the soul, preparing it for the hereafter. His ministry might also effect healing of bodies, when that healing did not endanger the soul. This book treats how a priest prepared to visit sick persons and went to them in procession with the Eucharist and oil of the sick. The priest was to comfort the patient and, if death was imminent, prepare the soul for the hereafter. Canon law, theology, and ritual sources are employed. Three sacraments, penanc...

Le sixiesme livre d'Amadis de Gaule, qui traicte amplement des grands faicts d'armes, & adventures estranges
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 266
De Laudibus Legum Angliæ
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

De Laudibus Legum Angliæ

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1775
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Amadis de Gaule
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 176

Amadis de Gaule

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1573
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Amadis de Gaule: le sicième livre
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 190

Amadis de Gaule: le sicième livre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1572
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Le cincquiéme liure d'Amadis de Gaule: mis en François par ... Nicolas de Herberay. [With woodcuts.]
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 180