In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life have increasingly been identified as being of critical importance in understanding the

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical impo

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions,

This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It