Introduction: Divided by Death? Staging Mortality in the Early Modern Low Countries

This special issue examines the multifaceted phenomenon of death in the early modern Low Countries. When war, revolt, and disease ravaged the Netherlands, the experience of death came to be increasingly materialised in vanitas art, funeral sermons, ars moriendi prints, mourning poetry, deathbed psalms, memento mori pendants, grave monuments, épitaphiers, and commemoration masses. This collection of interdisciplinary essays brings historical, art historical, and literary perspectives to bear on the complex cultural and anthropological dimensions of death in past societies. It argues that the se... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Isabel Casteels
Louise Deschryver
Violet Soen
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Reihe/Periodikum: Early Modern Low Countries, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2021)
Verlag/Hrsg.: openjournals.nl
Schlagwörter: death / historical anthropology / Dutch Revolt / religious war / History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27408996
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