An edition of Caring for Body and Soul (2002)
Caring for Body and Soul
Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World
By Bonnie Effros
Publish Date
September 2002
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Language
eng
Pages
263
Description:
"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 important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian, or so-called "Long-Haired" Kings from 500 to 800 C.E."--BOOK JACKET.