The care of the dead in late antiquity / Éric Rebillard ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings and Jeanine Routier-Pucci.

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Uniform Title:Religion et sépulture. English
Main Author: Rebillard, Éric
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 59.
Subjects:
Death > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Rome > Religious aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Religious aspects.
Physical Description:xiii, 224 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The problem of the origins : Christian burial in Rome and Carthage
  • Burial and religious identity : religious groups and collective burial
  • Voluntary associations and collective burial : the church, Christians, and the Collegia
  • Violation of tombs and impiety : funerary practices and religious beliefs
  • Christian piety and burial duty : from the duty to bury the dead to the organization of burial for the poor
  • Christian funerals and funerals of Christians : the church and the death ritual in late antiquity
  • The church, Christians, and the dead : commemoration of the dead in late antiquity.