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The medieval Christian faithful believed that their souls had to be purified in Purgatory before they could enter Heaven. This ground-breaking volume, which covers the period c.1300–1558, examines the responses of English men and women in carrying out good works which would attract prayers so as to improve their chances of salvation. Evidence is in part drawn from the material remains of commemorative objects paid for by better-off members of society. They sought spiritual benefits not just by erecting tomb monuments but also through many other forms of memoria to be found in our parish churches. Unfortunately, much was swept away by the iconoclasm which accompanied the Reformation. Such sources are therefore supplemented by documentary evidence, including wills, inventories and Middle English literary texts. Commemoration in this widest sense has hitherto attracted little scholarly interest in Great Britain. This cutting-edge volume sheds valuable new light on an aspect of medieval piety which is of increasing interest to scholars, and is accompanied by a generous spread of 96 pages of stunning colour photographs, most by the photographer Cameron Newman. There are twelves chapters, plus a bibliography and index.
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Seeking Salvation Commemorating the Dead in the Late-Medieval English Parish
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Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2015
ISBN 10: 1907730478
ISBN 13: 9781907730474
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine new copy of this scholarly new study. 278pp + plates in colour. Seller Inventory # 061399
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Seeking salvation : commemorating the dead in the late-Medieval English parish / Sally Badham ; with photography by C.B. Newham
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Donington, Lincolnshire : Shaun Tyas, 2015
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 278 pp., 96 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color plates, 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1 Objectives and sources -- 2 The purpose and variety of Memoria -- 3 The theological underpinning -- 4 Philanthropic good works in the community -- 5 Church fabric -- 6 Church fittings -- 7 Church furnishings and ornaments -- 8 Colleges, chantries and prayers for the dead -- 9 Religious guilds, bede-rolls and lights -- 10 Funerals and burial location -- 11 Monuments -- 12 Reactions. Subjects; Catholic Church History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500. Salvation. Good works (Theology). Death Religious aspects. Prayers for the dead. Christian art and symbolism. Sepulchral monuments. Tombs England. Funeral rites. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 386095
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Seeking salvation : commemorating the dead in the late-Medieval English parish / Sally Badham ; with photography by C.B. Newham
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Donington, Lincolnshire : Shaun Tyas, 2015
ISBN 10: 1907730478
ISBN 13: 9781907730474
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Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 278 pp., 96 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color plates, 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1 Objectives and sources -- 2 The purpose and variety of Memoria -- 3 The theological underpinning -- 4 Philanthropic good works in the community -- 5 Church fabric -- 6 Church fittings -- 7 Church furnishings and ornaments -- 8 Colleges, chantries and prayers for the dead -- 9 Religious guilds, bede-rolls and lights -- 10 Funerals and burial location -- 11 Monuments -- 12 Reactions. Subjects; Catholic Church History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500. Salvation. Good works (Theology). Death Religious aspects. Prayers for the dead. Christian art and symbolism. Sepulchral monuments. Tombs England. Funeral rites. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 386095