The Death Ritual at Cluny in the Central Middle Ages / Le rituel de la mort a Cluny au Moyen age central
By (author) Frederick Paxton By (author) Isabelle Cochelin
This volume presents a complete reconstruction of the ritual response to terminal illness and death at the monastic community of Cluny at the height of its development in the later eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Based on the best manuscript of the customary of Bernard, the only account of the abbey’s customs written at and for Cluny itself, the reconstruction contains not just Bernard’s Latin description of the ritual process, but also the full texts of the prayers and chants that accompanied it, gathered, in the absence of suviving ritual books from Cluny itself, from contemporary sources with clear ties to the Cluniac customs. Facing-page English and French translations make the results available to readers with little or no facility in Latin. The author places the Cluniac death ritual in the context of religious responses to death, dying and the care of the dead in medieval Latin Christianity as a whole. He also explicates the origins, development and meaning of the Cluniac death ritual’s myriad elements as they were spoken, sung and performed within the sacred spaces of the monastic complex-cloister, chapter house, infirmary, church and cemetery.
Frederick S. Paxton is Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of History at Connecticut College, in New London, CT, USA. He is the author of Christianizing Death: The Making of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe (1990), Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: the Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim (2009) and numerous articles and essays on sickness, death, dying and the dead in medieval Europe.
- By (author) Frederick Paxton
- By (author) Isabelle Cochelin
Other Titles in this Series
From Dead of Night to End of Day
The Medieval Customs of Cluny: Du coeur de la nuit a la fin du jour: les coutumes clunisiennes au Moyen Age
Volume 3
Les deux vies de Robert d’Arbrissel, fondateur de Fontevraud. Legendes, ecrits et temoignages
The Two Lives of Robert of Arbrissel, Founder of Fontevraud. Legends, Writings, and Testimonies
Assistenza, ospitalità e ospedali presso monasteri e canoniche regolari del medioevo europeo: l’ospedale di Sant’Andrea di Vercelli in contesto
Care, Hospitality and Hospitals in Monasteries and Houses of Regular Canons in Medieval Europe: The Hospital of Sant’Andrea in Vercelli in Context
Volume 15
The Pursuit of Salvation
Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism: With a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines
Volume 13
Consuetudines et Regulae
Sources for Monastic Life in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Volume 10
Western Monasticism ante litteram
The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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‘The Devout Belief of the Imagination’
The Paris 'Meditationes Vitae Christi' and Female Franciscan Spirituality in Trecento Italy
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Saint-Benigne de Dijon en l’an mil, ‘totius Galliae basilicis mirabilior’
Interpretation politique, liturgique et theologique
Volume 5
Walls and Memory
The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio), from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond
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