LEADER 04702nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910789627903321 005 20220402003813.0 010 $a0-8014-5792-0 010 $a0-8014-5916-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459160 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079051 035 $a(EBL)3138017 035 $a(OCoLC)726824276 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483198 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11300073 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483198 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528761 035 $a(PQKB)10366710 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28904 035 $a(DE-B1597)515875 035 $a(OCoLC)1083583090 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459160 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138017 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457638 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760694 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138017 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079051 100 $a19860117d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe care of the dead in late antiquity$b[electronic resource] /$fE?ric Rebillard ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings and Jeanine Routier-Pucci 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aCornell studies in classical philology ;$v59 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8014-7795-6 311 0 $a0-8014-4677-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-212) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Problem of the Origins: Christian Burial in Rome and Carthage --$t2. Burial and Religious Identity: Religious Groups and Collective Burial --$t3. Voluntary Associations and Collective Burial: The Church, Christians, and the Collegia --$t4. Violation of Tombs and Impiety: Funerary Practices and Religious Beliefs --$t5. Christian Piety and Burial Duty: From the Duty to Bury the Dead to the Organization of Burial for the Poor --$t6. Christian Funerals and Funerals of Christians: The Church and the Death Ritual in Late Antiquity --$t7. The Church, Christians, and the Dead: Commemoration of the Dead in Late Antiquity --$tConclusion --$tPrimary Sources --$tSecondary Sources --$tIndex 330 $aIn this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evidence to suggest that Christians occupied exclusive or isolated burial grounds in this early period. In fact, as late as the fourth and fifth centuries the Church did not impose on the faithful specific rituals for laying the dead to rest. In the preparation of Christians for burial, it was usually next of kin and not representatives of the Church who were responsible for what form of rite would be celebrated, and evidence from inscriptions and tombstones shows that for the most part Christians didn't separate themselves from non-Christians when burying their dead. According to Rebillard it would not be until the early Middle Ages that the Church gained control over burial practices and that "Christian cemeteries" became common. In this translation of Religion et Sépulture: L'église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive, Rebillard fundamentally changes our understanding of early Christianity. The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity will force scholars of the period to rethink their assumptions about early Christians as separate from their pagan contemporaries in daily life and ritual practice. 410 0$aCornell studies in classical philology ;$v59. 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies, Ancient$zRome$xReligious aspects 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies, Ancient$xReligious aspects 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies, Ancient$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies, Ancient$xReligious aspects. 676 $a265/.850937 700 $aRebillard$b E?ric$0183889 701 $aRawlings$b Elizabeth Trapnell$01550255 701 $aRoutier-Pucci$b Jeanine$01550256 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789627903321 996 $aThe care of the dead in late antiquity$93808913 997 $aUNINA