Contributor
Gusick, Barbara I.
Imprint:New York : Peter Lang, c1999.
Descriptionxi, 515 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:FACT, TESTIMONY, AND RITUAL : The Doctor and death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Yves Ferroul -- The Role of the Beguines in caring for the ill, the dying, and the dead / Christine Guidera -- The Altar of the Holy Cross and the ideal of Adam's progeny: "ut paradysiace loca possideat regionis" / Kornelia Imesch -- CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY AND THANATOLOGY : What happens to us when we die" Bernardino of siena on "The four last things" / Franco Mormando -- Aquinas's dilemma about knowledge after death / Patrick Quinn -- In the face of death: Jean Delumeau on late-medieval fears and hopes / Thomas Worcester -- Between life and death: the journey in the otherworld / Peter M. De Wilde -- From the bosom of Abraham to the beatific vision: on some medieval images of the soul's journey to heaven / Anca Bratu-Minott -- MIRACLES, CONVERSIONS, AND TRANSMUTATIONS 'SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS' : Travelling-companion in the journey of life: Saint Barbara of Nicomedia in a devotio moderna context / Mathilde Van Dijk -- Saints as helpers in dying: the hairy holy women Mary Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Wilgefortis in the iconography of the late middle ages / Ilse E. Friesen -- 'Virtual Death' in the midle ages: the apotheosis of Mary Magdalene in popular preaching / Franco Mormando -- Up from the dead: magic and miracle / Martha Rampton -- THE LATE-MEDIEVAL LITERATURE ON DEATH: POETRY AND DRAMA : Death: poetic perception and imagination (continental Europe) / Edelgard E. DuBruck -- The Ultimate nothing: death and the end of work in late-medieval English lyrics / Barbara I. Gusick -- Death and resurrection in the Towneley Lazarus / Barbara I. Gusick -- The Death of Christ on the late-medieval stage: a theater of salvation / Edelgard E. DuBruck -- THE ART OF DEATH: LATE-MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHY : Dying well: the Ars moriendi and the Dormition of the Virgin / Donald F. Duclow -- The Death desired: books of hours and the medieval funeral / Roger S. Wieck.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
