LEADER 04454nam 2200769 450 001 9910808043103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9047-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290479 035 $a(CKB)3710000000274867 035 $a(OCoLC)896834181 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10953818 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001379310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11887597 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001379310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11356009 035 $a(PQKB)10857181 035 $a(OCoLC)899261616 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35426 035 $a(DE-B1597)463547 035 $a(OCoLC)959919065 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290479 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10953818 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682659 035 $a(OCoLC)932312992 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442434 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000274867 100 $a20141020h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLearning to die in London, 1380-1540 /$fAmy Appleford 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aMiddle Ages Series 311 $a1-322-51377-5 311 $a0-8122-4669-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Quotations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Spiritual Governance and the Lay Household: The Visitation of the Sick --$tChapter 2. Dying Generations: The Dance of Death --$tChapter 3. Self-Care and Lay Asceticism: Learn to Die --$tChapter 4. Wounded Texts and Worried Readers: The Book of the Craft of Dying --$tChapter 5. The Exercise of Death in Henrician England --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aTaking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380's?just a generation after the Black Death?and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530's, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle English "art of dying" (ars moriendi). An educated awareness of death and mortality was a vital aspect of medieval civic culture, she contends, critical not only to the shaping of single lives and the management of families and households but also to the practices of cultural memory, the building of institutions, and the good government of the city itself. In fifteenth-century London in particular, where an increasingly laicized reformist religiosity coexisted with an ambitious program of urban renewal, cultivating a sophisticated attitude toward death was understood as essential to good living in the widest sense. The virtuous ordering of self, household, and city rested on a proper attitude toward mortality on the part both of the ruled and of their secular and religious rulers. The intricacies of keeping death constantly in mind informed not only the religious prose of the period, but also literary and visual arts. In London's version of the famous image-text known as the Dance of Death, Thomas Hoccleve's poetic collection The Series, and the early sixteenth-century prose treatises of Tudor writers Richard Whitford, Thomas Lupset, and Thomas More, death is understood as an explicitly generative force, one capable (if properly managed) of providing vital personal, social, and literary opportunities. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aDeath$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aDeath$zEngland$zLondon$xPsychological aspects 606 $aDeath$xPolitical aspects$zEngland$zLondon 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aDeath 615 0$aDeath$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aDeath$xPolitical aspects 676 $a820.9/3548 700 $aAppleford$b Amy$f1970-$01623393 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808043103321 996 $aLearning to die in London, 1380-1540$93957775 997 $aUNINA