Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World

271 Pages·2002·7.91 MB·English

by  Bonnie Effros

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Caring for Body and Soul
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pennsylvania state university press
university park • pennsylvania
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Caring for Body and Soul
Burial Afterlife
and the
in the Merovingian World
Bonnie Effros
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Disclaimer:
Some images in the original version of this book are not
available for inclusion in the eBook.
Title page illustration of the seventh-century Wittislingen brooch reproduced
with permission of thePrähistoriche Staatssammlung,
Museum für Vor-und Frühgeschichte (Munich).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Effros, Bonnie, 1965–
Caring for body and soul : burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world /
Bonnie Effros.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-271-02196-9 (alk. paper)
1. Funeral rites and ceremonies—Gaul—History. 2. Merovingians—Funeral
customs and rites. 3. Merovingians—History. 4. Merovingians—Antiquities. 5. France—
History—To 987. 6. Gaul—Antiquities. I. Title.
GT3170 .E34 2002
393'.09364—dc21
2001056016
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In fond memory of my grandparents,
Max Hochman and Dorothy Katel Hochman
and
Milton Effros and Davida Gage Effros
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Obsecro, nulla manus violet pia iura sepulcri,
Personet angelica donec ab arce tuba:
“Qui iaces in tumulo, terrae de pulvere surge,
Magnus adest iudex milibus innumeris.”
—, Carmina 123
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
chapter I • The Symbolic Significance of Clothing for the Dead 13
chapter Ii • Lay and Clerical Regulation of Grave Goods and
Cemeteries 41
chapter Iii • Grave Markers as Memoria 79
chapter Iv • Membership in the Kingdom of the Elect 139
chapter v • Christian Liturgy and the Journey to the Next World 169
chapter vI • Exchanges Between the Living and the Dead 205
Select Bibliography 213
Index 247
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Abbreviations
AB Analecta bollandiana
AHM Archives historiques du Maine
AK Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt
AM Archéologie médiévale
Annales ESC Annales: Économies, sociétés, civilisations
BAR British Archaeological Reports
BM Bulletin monumental
CA Cahiers archéologiques
CBA Council for British Archaeology
CCM Cahiers de civilisation médiévale
CCSL Corpus christianorum series latina
CESCM Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation
médiévale
ChLA Chartae latinae antiquiores
CIFM Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale
CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique
CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum
EME Early Medieval Europe
Études mérovingiennes Études mérovingiennes: Actes des journées de
er
Poitiers 1 –3 mai 1952 (Paris: Éditions A. et
J. Picard, 1953)
FS Frühmittelalterliche Studien
ILCV Inscriptiones latinae christianae veteres