Caring for body and soul : burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world /

"The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were i...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Effros, Bonnie, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2002.
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