Sarah Schell is Lecturer in Art History at American University of Beirut. She received her PhD in Art History at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and has held research and teaching positions in Canada, the UAE, Lebanon, and the United States.

• Introduction, The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy, The Office of the Dead in Devotional Books, Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice, Seeing into the Office: Imagining, Reader as Body, Hearing Community: Image and Liturgy, Repellent Death: Time, Rot and the Death of the Body, Death-tide: Time and decay of the body, 'Nothing more base and abominable': The Corpse, Disruption: The Lively Corpse, Dry Bones: Death in Life, The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus and Death Undone, Living Death: Job as the Social Body, The Undead: Lazarus and the Promise of Resurrection, Conclusions, Bibliography, Bibliography: Manuscripts.

Sarah Schell is Lecturer in Art History at American University of Beirut. She received her PhD in Art History at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and has held research and teaching positions in Canada, the UAE, Lebanon, and the United States.

• Introduction, The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy, The Office of the Dead in Devotional Books, Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice, Seeing into the Office: Imagining, Reader as Body, Hearing Community: Image and Liturgy, Repellent Death: Time, Rot and the Death of the Body, Death-tide: Time and decay of the body, 'Nothing more base and abominable': The Corpse, Disruption: The Lively Corpse, Dry Bones: Death in Life, The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus and Death Undone, Living Death: Job as the Social Body, The Undead: Lazarus and the Promise of Resurrection, Conclusions, Bibliography, Bibliography: Manuscripts.

Sarah Schell is Lecturer in Art History at American University of Beirut. She received her PhD in Art History at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and has held research and teaching positions in Canada, the UAE, Lebanon, and the United States.

• Introduction, The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy, The Office of the Dead in Devotional Books, Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice, Seeing into the Office: Imagining, Reader as Body, Hearing Community: Image and Liturgy, Repellent Death: Time, Rot and the Death of the Body, Death-tide: Time and decay of the body, 'Nothing more base and abominable': The Corpse, Disruption: The Lively Corpse, Dry Bones: Death in Life, The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus and Death Undone, Living Death: Job as the Social Body, The Undead: Lazarus and the Promise of Resurrection, Conclusions, Bibliography, Bibliography: Manuscripts.