Medievalists.net » Robert Hertz http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Culture of Death in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/17/the-culture-of-death-in-late-medieval-and-early-renaissance-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/17/the-culture-of-death-in-late-medieval-and-early-renaissance-italy/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:49:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28663 An attempt will be made to show that it is precisely during this period that certain fundamental changes in the conception of and attitudes towards death took place, changes that can be seen as the starting points of a long process that would eventually lead to the medical and utterly despiritualized view of death prevalent in the contemporary Western world.

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