VOLUME 18
Cultures of Death and
Dying in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen
Published in 2015
by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland
ISSN 1796-2986
ISBN 978-951-51-1221-7
© Editors & Contributors 2015
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COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Editors-in-Chief
Sari Kivistö, Johanna Sumiala Managing Editor
Maija Väätämöinen Editorial Board
Elvira Brattico, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Nora Hämäläinen, Juliette Kennedy, Simo Knuuttila, Klaus Laalo, Merja Polvinen, Silvija Serafimova, Flutur Troshani
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Cultures of Death and Dying in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen
Cultures of Death and Dying in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Introduction Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen The Remembrance of the Deceased in the Traditional Polish Culture of the Middle Ages
Beata Wojciechowska
Deviant Burials: Societal Exclusion of Dead Outlaws in Medieval Norway Anne Irene Riisøy
Parental Grief and Prayer in the Middle Ages: Religious Coping in Swedish Miracle Stories Viktor Aldrin
Transforming the Investment in the Afterlife: Readings of the Poem De Vita Hominis in Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Denmark
Eivor Andersen Oftestad
Dicing towards Death: An Oracle Game for Miners at the Falun Copper Mine from the Early Seventeenth Century
Iris Ridder
“To Help the Deceased Guild Brother to His Grave”: Guilds, Death and Funeral Arrangements in Late Medieval and Early Modern Norway, ca. 1300–1900
Håkon Haugland
Post-Mortem – an Afterword Ditlev Tamm
List of Contributors List of Illustrations
Contents
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