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In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones explores the emergence of a remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in Poland-Lithua
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The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For E
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This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars fro
A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700
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This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Ex
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This study analyzes late medieval paintings of personified death in Bohemia, arguing that Bohemian iconography was distinct from the body of macabre painting fo