The Resource Learning to die in London, 1380-1540, Amy Appleford
Learning to die in London, 1380-1540, Amy Appleford
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- Summary
- Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s{u2014}just a generation after the Black Death{u2014}and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, 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. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Spriritual governance and the lay household: The Visitation of the Sick
- Dying generations: The Dance of Death
- Self-care and lay asceticism: Learn to Die
- Wounded texts and worried readers: The Book of the Craft of Dying
- The exercise of death in Henrician England
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780812246698
- Label
- Learning to die in London, 1380-1540
- Title
- Learning to die in London, 1380-1540
- Statement of responsibility
- Amy Appleford
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Death
- Death -- England | London
- Death -- England | London -- Psychological aspects
- Death -- Political aspects
- Death -- Political aspects -- England | London
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Death in literature
- Death in literature
- England -- London
- English literature -- Middle English
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- 1100 - 1500
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s{u2014}just a generation after the Black Death{u2014}and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, 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. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- PU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Appleford, Amy
- Dewey number
- 820.9/3548
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR275.D43
- LC item number
- A67 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The Middle Ages series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Death in literature
- Death
- Death
- Death
- English literature
- Death in literature
- Death
- Death
- Death
- Death
- Death in literature
- Death
- Death
- English literature
- England
- Label
- Learning to die in London, 1380-1540, Amy Appleford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Spriritual governance and the lay household: The Visitation of the Sick -- Dying generations: The Dance of Death -- Self-care and lay asceticism: Learn to Die -- Wounded texts and worried readers: The Book of the Craft of Dying -- The exercise of death in Henrician England -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 881848563
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812246698
- Lccn
- 2014024291
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881848563
- Label
- Learning to die in London, 1380-1540, Amy Appleford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Spriritual governance and the lay household: The Visitation of the Sick -- Dying generations: The Dance of Death -- Self-care and lay asceticism: Learn to Die -- Wounded texts and worried readers: The Book of the Craft of Dying -- The exercise of death in Henrician England -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 881848563
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812246698
- Lccn
- 2014024291
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881848563
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Death
- Death -- England | London
- Death -- England | London -- Psychological aspects
- Death -- Political aspects
- Death -- Political aspects -- England | London
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Death in literature
- Death in literature
- England -- London
- English literature -- Middle English
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- 1100 - 1500
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