Recent German Research on Good and Bad Deaths in Medieval Narrative Sources

2023/11/01 by Manuel Kamenzin · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Medieval Literature and History #Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/qufiab-2023-0021

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Abstract

Abstract This research report presents recent German scholarship on good and bad deaths in medieval narrative sources to an English-speaking audience. Current publications are thus concisely illustrated in their design and with their results.

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• It includes an attempt to describe developments in German-language research on narrative accounts of dying and death for an English-speaking audience, by yours truly. Open Access! #medievaldeath do [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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