SEEKING SALVATION: Commemorating the Dead in the Late-Medieval English Parish Tapa dura - 2015

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this scholarly new study. 278pp + plates in colour..

Donington, Lincolnshire : Shaun Tyas, 2015. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 278 pp., 96 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color plates, 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1 Objectives and sources -- 2 The purpose and variety of Memoria -- 3 The theological underpinning -- 4 Philanthropic good works in the community -- 5 Church fabric -- 6 Church fittings -- 7 Church furnishings and ornaments -- 8 Colleges, chantries and prayers for the dead -- 9 Religious guilds, bede-rolls and lights -- 10 Funerals and burial location -- 11 Monuments -- 12 Reactions. Subjects; Catholic Church History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500. Salvation. Good works (Theology). Death Religious aspects. Prayers for the dead. Christian art and symbolism. Sepulchral monuments. Tombs England. Funeral rites.