Time, death and burial in the ancien diocese of Le Mans

Philippa Woodcock

Time, death and burial in the ancien diocese of Le Mans

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Abstract

This chapter provides a survey of the role of time in the relevant historiography of death in early modern France, focusing on some of the contrasting times of normality and emergency, and of peace and war. It outlines the normal patterns and obligations of buriel, depending on the circumstances of death and social class. It then contrasts this with times of upheaval, such as war and plague. Finally, it asks how ideas of 'resting in peace', commemoration and exhumation depended on turning the clock back to create a fictional Catholic continuity and posthumous identity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Managing Time
Subtitle of host publication	Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France
Editors	Richard Maber, Joanna Barker
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Peter Lang
Chapter	11
Pages	227-259
Number of pages	33
ISBN (Print)	978-1787074927
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Huguenot
Burial
Roman Catholic
Rites
Ritual
Andrew Spicer
Penny Roberts
Vanessa Harding

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A matter of time: strategies for prompt and delayed burial in seventeenth century Maine
Philippa Woodcock (Speaker)
2016
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Time, death and burial in the ancien diocese of Le Mans

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