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The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

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Description for The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity Paperback. Translator(s): Rawlings, Elizabeth Trapnell; Routier-Pucci, Jeanine. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBLA1; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.

In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evidence to suggest that Christians occupied exclusive or isolated burial grounds in this early period. In fact, as late as the fourth and fifth centuries the Church did not impose on the faithful specific rituals for laying the dead ... Read more

In this translation of Religion et Sépulture: L'église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive, Rebillard fundamentally changes our understanding of early Christianity. The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity will force scholars of the period to rethink their assumptions about early Christians as separate from their pagan contemporaries in daily life and ritual practice.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801477959
SKU
V9780801477959
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About Éric Rebillard
Eric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at Cornell University. He is the author of In hora mortis and editor of L'Année philologique on the Internet. Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings is an independent translator. Jeanine Routier-Pucci is Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language at Cornell University.

Reviews for The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity
Éric Rebillard amasses a vast array of second- through fifth-century Christian literature in an attempt to systematically dispel any notion that Church institutions had much to do with the dead bodies of their community. Cemetery space, unless it was inhabited by a saint, was not considered sacred, grave robbing was a civil matter, and belief in resurrection of the dead ... Read more

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