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Autore |
Rebillard Eric |
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Titolo |
The care of the dead in late antiquity / / Eric Rebillard ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings and Jeanine Routier-Pucci |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-8014-5792-0 |
0-8014-5916-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cornell studies in classical philology ; ; 59 |
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Soggetti |
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Death - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient - Rome - Religious aspects |
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient - Religious aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-212) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Problem of the Origins: Christian Burial in Rome and Carthage -- 2. Burial and Religious Identity: Religious Groups and Collective Burial -- 3. Voluntary Associations and Collective Burial: The Church, Christians, and the Collegia -- 4. Violation of Tombs and Impiety: Funerary Practices and Religious Beliefs -- 5. Christian Piety and Burial Duty: From the Duty to Bury the Dead to the Organization of Burial for the Poor -- 6. Christian Funerals and Funerals of Christians: The Church and the Death Ritual in Late Antiquity -- 7. The Church, Christians, and the Dead: Commemoration of the Dead in Late Antiquity -- Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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