The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801477956 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity will force scholars of the period to rethink their assumptions about early Christians as separate from their pagan contemporaries in daily life and ritual practice.. According to Rebillard it would not be until the early Middle Ages that the Church gained control over burial practices and that "Christian cemeteries" became common.In this translation of Religion et Sépulture: L'église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive, Rebillard fundamentally changes our understanding of early Christianity. In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. In the preparation of Christians for burial, it was usually next of kin and not representatives of the Church who were responsible for what form of rite would be celebrated, and evidence from inscriptions and tombstones shows that for the most part Christians didn't separate themselves from non-Christians when burying their dead. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evi
Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings is an independent translator of books including The Mind of Thucydides by Jacqueline de Romilly, The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity by Éric Rebillard and The Mourning Voice by Nicole Loraux, all from Cornell. Jeanine Routier-Pucci is Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language at Cornell University.. He is the author of In hora mortis, The Care of the Dead i
His innovative research integrates complex historical and archaeological sources in a way that changes our perspective of the role of the church in this period. Kloppenborg, University of Toronto . The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity strips away assumptions about the functioning of the church that derive from later periods and forces us to think about the way in which clerics first began to expand their reach."Bonnie Effros, University of Florida"The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity offers a fresh and challenging examination of how the Church came to be involved in cemeteries, an issu
Molemowa'One said Read more for better understanding. An exciting and less complicated read. I'll read it again, this time not for exam but leisure. We are using that method today. It's hard to read the book at all since there Kate Wilkinson It's hard to read the book at all since there are so many egregious typos, starting on the first pages. Here are a few from the first page of the introduction: 'augustine' 'Paulinus of nola' 'martyr. it was a difficult question' 'augustine'. I checked the hardcover and t