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Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Anna Linton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-10 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten. In the light of this high mortality rate, some hi
Women and Death
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Helen Fronius
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Camden House

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Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past. The theme of women and death i
Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Anna Linton
Categories: Bereavement
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored
Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 552
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-11 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an exis
Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Katie Barclay
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-06 - Publisher: Springer

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This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars fro