Death in the Middle Ages: Battles with Demons, Many-Eyed Angels, and Dances of the Dead
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Death in the Middle Ages: Battles with Demons, Many-Eyed Angels, and Dances of the Dead
14.99 €
What was death like for someone in Christian Europe around the 15th century? Not simply a dissolution into oblivion, as it is for many of us today. Once, it was liberation from earthly burdens. Then, a "crisis," a personal Judgment. Always, it was the most important event in life. And even a revelation of Truth.
A new book by medieval historian Igor Luzhetsky is a fascinating account of the European tradition of understanding death: from Antiquity, without which the Middle Ages cannot be understood, to the Middle Ages themselves—and to the present day. This is the story of theologians who pondered the soul, of ossuaries and cemeteries, of funerary sculptures, of angels and demons. A story about the "art of dying"—and how to look death in the eye while remembering God.
What is the difference between simple death, the death of the soul, and death to sin? Can death be a "good"? How did the Valley of Gennom near Jerusalem become hell? How did Christians prepare for death, and what supposedly happened to them at the moment of death? And why is every person's death an image of Christ's death on the Cross?
You will learn how death was understood in the ancient, Jewish, and Christian traditions, how people imagined the soul and the dying process itself—and how they were anxious, but not disheartened, in the presence of the vast emptiness that death creates.
A new book by medieval historian Igor Luzhetsky is a fascinating account of the European tradition of understanding death: from Antiquity, without which the Middle Ages cannot be understood, to the Middle Ages themselves—and to the present day. This is the story of theologians who pondered the soul, of ossuaries and cemeteries, of funerary sculptures, of angels and demons. A story about the "art of dying"—and how to look death in the eye while remembering God.
What is the difference between simple death, the death of the soul, and death to sin? Can death be a "good"? How did the Valley of Gennom near Jerusalem become hell? How did Christians prepare for death, and what supposedly happened to them at the moment of death? And why is every person's death an image of Christ's death on the Cross?
You will learn how death was understood in the ancient, Jewish, and Christian traditions, how people imagined the soul and the dying process itself—and how they were anxious, but not disheartened, in the presence of the vast emptiness that death creates.
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