Dealing With The Dead

Thea Tomaini, Ph.D. (1998), University of Illinois at Chicago, is Professor of English (Teaching) at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Corpse as Text: Disinterment and Antiquarian Enquiry 1700-1900, (Boydell, 2017).

"Dealing with the Dead ably fulfills its aim to "contribute to an ongoing interdisciplinary study of the dead and their continued enfranchisement in the world of the living" (1), making it essential reading. Furthermore, researchers in medieval and early modern literature, text, folklore, religion, and art are likely to encounter enlightenment in these pages, and expemplary course readings in art, religion, and literature lie among these chapters". Elizabeth M. Willingham, in Sixteenth Century Journal, L/4 (2019).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionThea TomainiPart 1: Discourses and Intercessions1 The Talking Dead: Exhortations of the Dead to the Living in Anglo-Saxon WritingHilary Fox2 Sudden Death in Early Medieval England and the Anglo-Saxon Fortunes of MenJill Hamilton Clements3 Monumental Memory: The Performance and Enduring Spectacle of Burial in Early Anglo-Saxon EnglandMelissa Herman4 Dealing with the Undead in the Later Middle AgesStephen Gordon5 “Look at my Hands”: Physical Presence and the Saintly Intercessor at WiltonKathryn Maud6 The Corpse of Public Opinion: Thomas of Norwich, Anti-Semitism, and Christian IdentityMary E. LeechPart 2: Law and Civic Life7 Outlaws and the Undead: Defining Sacred and Communal Space in Medieval IcelandJustin T. Noetzel8 A Funeral Procession from Venice to Milan: Death Rituals for a Late-Medieval Wealthy MerchantMartina Saltamacchia9 Live by the Sea, Die by the Sea: Confronting Death and the Dead in Medieval Liguria, 1140-1240 CENikki Malain10 The Medieval Cemetery as Ecclesiastical Community: Regulation, Conflict, and Expulsion, 1000-1215Anthony Perron11 The Corpse as Testimony: Judgment, Verdict, and the Elizabethan StageThea TomainiPart 3: Funerary Art and Mementi Mori12 Reappropiated Antiquity in the Funerary Art of the Kingdom of León and Castile in the High Middle AgesSonsoles García González13 Exploring Late-Medieval English Memento Mori Carved Cadaver SculpturesChristina Welch14 Holbein’s Mementi MoriLibby Karlinger EscobedoAfterword: A Few Thoughts on the Dead, the Living, and Liminal ExistenceWendy J. TurnerGeneral BibliographyIndex