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Pages: 275
Authors: Aleksandra Koutny-Jones
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones explores the emergence of a remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in Poland-Lithua
Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Angela Jianu
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-04 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For E
Central Europe as a Meeting Point of Visual Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: AA. VV.
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-08T17:39:00+01:00 - Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice

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The end of World War I in 1918 meant a radical transformation of Central Europe: the multicultural space of former empires became divided into individual nation
A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-23 - Publisher: BRILL

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This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.
Speculum Mortis
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Authors: Daniela Rywiková
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-22 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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This study analyzes late medieval paintings of personified death in Bohemia, arguing that Bohemian iconography was distinct from the body of macabre painting fo