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Bibliographies
Death and Attitudes toward Dying
Compiled from an on-line search by Otfried Lieberknecht
*LA FEMME ET LA MORT
*La femme et la mort. Groupe de recherche interdiscipli-
naire d'étude de femmes, Toulouse: Université de Tou-
louse-Le Mirail, 1984 (=3D Travaux de l'Université de
Toulouse-Le Mirail, A, 27), 76 pp.
For medieval women dealing with the death of their husband (most famous
case in French literature: Christine de Pizan) you might look at:
MIRRER Louise [ed.]
Upon my husband's death: widows in the literature and
histories of medieval Europe, edited by Louise Mirrer, Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992 (=3D Studies in
medieval and early modern civilization), x+351 pp.
Or, the other way round, on the loss of the female spouse:
GENTRY Francis G.
Silent That Other Might Speak: Notes on the Ackermann aus
Böhmen. In: German Quarterly 67,4 (1994), p.484ss.
For a single case of a woman's testament I have:
SAUVAGE Jean-Paul
Une femme devant la mort. Un testament olographe du XVe
siècle (manuscrit no. 1408, Fonds Joursanvault de la
Bibliothèque de Blois), Blois: Les Amis de la Bibliothèque
de Blois, 1990 (=3D Les cahiers de la Bibliothèque Municipale
de Blois, 7), 46 pp.
The topic of death and morning in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen
might
be of interest, but the only reference I have is not very specific:
DIERS Michaela
Vom Nutzen der Tränen. U"ber den Umgang mit Leben und Tod im
Mittelalter und heute. Köln: DuMont, 1994, 263 pp.
You could also check late medieval Artes moriendi, although I myself
don't
know how specific they are for the dying of women. The following studies
will lead you to the primary sources:
ATKINSON David W.
The English Ars moriendi: Its Protestant Transformation.
In: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme
6,1 (1982), p.1-10
ATKINSON David W.
The English ars moriendi. New York et al.: Lang, 1992
(=3D Renaissance and Baroque, 5), xxxiv+387 pp.
ATKINSON David W.
Erasmus on Preparing to Die. In: Wascana Reviw of Contempo-
rary Poetry and Short Fiction 15,2 (1980), p.3-21
ATKINSON David W.
Thomas Cranmer's 'An Exhortacion against the Feare of
Death' and the Tradition of the Ars Moriendi. In:
Christianity and Literature [Grand Rapids (Mich.)] 27,1
(1977), p.22-28
ATKINSON David W.
Zachary Boyd and the Ars Moriendi Tradition. In: Scottish
Literary Journal 4,1 (1977), p.5-16
BASCETTA Carlo
Il volgarizzamento italiano di un'Ars moriendi del XV seco-
lo. In: Lettere Italiane 15 (1963), p.201-214
BEATY Nancy L.
The craft of dying. A study in the literary tradition of
the Ars moriendi in England [Diss. New Haven (Conn.), Yale
University], New Haven: Yael UP, 1970 (=3D Yale Studies in
English, 175), xii+299 pp.
BIETENHOLZ P. G.
Ludwig Baer, Erasmus and the Tradition of the 'Ars Bene
Moriendi'. In: Revue de Litt=E9rature Compar=E9e 52 (1978),
p.155-170
DOEBLER Bettie A.
Othello's Angels: The Ars Moriendi. In: ELH 34 (1967),
p.156-172
DUCLOW Donald F.
Everyman and the Ars Moriendi: Fifteenth-Century Ceremonies
of Dying. In: Fifteenth-Century Studies 6 (1983), p.93-113
FELT Shirley Ann Rader
John Donne's Sermons and the Ars Moriendi. Diss., cf. DAI
vol. 37-38 (1977), 5846A, 2138A-2139A
GERLI E. Michael
Leriano's Libation: Notes on the Cancionero Lyric, Ars
Moriendi, and the Probable Debt to Boccaccio. In: MLN
96,2 (1981), p.414-420
GOEZ Werner
Luthers 'Ein Sermon von der Bereitung zum Sterben' und die
spätmittelalterliche ars moriendi. In: Lutherjahrbuch 48
(1981), p.97-114
LAMB Mary Ellen
The Countess of Pembroke and the Art of Dying. In:
*Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary
and Historical Perspectives, ed. Mary Beth Rose, Syracuse:
Syracuse UP, 1986, p.207-226
MACKSEY Richard
Last Words: The Artes Moriendi and a Transtextual Genre.
In: Genre 16,4 (1983), p.493-516
O'CONNOR Mary C.
The Art of dying well: the development of the Ars moriendi.
[Diss. New York, Columbia University, 1941] New York 1942
Repr. New York: AMS Press, 1966, x+258 pp.
RUDOLF Rainer
Ars Moriendi. Von der Kunst des heilsamen Leben und Ster-
bens, Köln et al.: Böhlau, 1957 (=3D Forschungen zur Volks-
kunde, 39), 145 pp.
SIY Dennis
Death, Medieval Moralities, and the Ars Moriendi Tradition.
Diss., cf. DAI vol. 45, no. 11 (May 1985), 3346A
SPINRAD Phoebe S.
The Last Temptation of Everyman. In: Philological Quarterly
64,2 (1985), p.185-194
THIEL Gudrum
Die Spiele vom Reichen Mann und Armen Lazarus und die
Jedermanndramen - ars vivendi versus ars moriendi? In:
Daphnis [Amsterdam] 19,2 (1990), p.161-188
Additional text editions are:
PALMER Nigel F.
Apokalypse, Ars moriendi, Biblia pauperum, Antichrist, Fabel
vom kranken Löwen, Kalendarium und Planetenbücher, Historia
David: Die lateinisch-deutschen Blockbücher des Berlin-Bres-
lauer Sammelbandes, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussi-
scher Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Cim. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9,
10, 12. Farmikrofiche-Edition, München: H. Lengenfelder,
1992 (=3D Monumenta xylographica et typographica, 2)
PALMER Nigel F.
Ars moriendi: das ist Die Kunst des heilsamen Sterbens. Das
deutschsprachige Blockbuch der Donaueschinger Hofbibliothek,
mit einer Einleitung von Nigel F. Palmer, Ramsen (Schweiz)
et al.: Tenschert, 1995 (=3D Tenschert Katalog, 33, 1-2),
2 vol.
SEEBOHM Almuth
Apokalypse / Ars moriendi / Medizinische Traktate / Tugend-
und Lasterlehren. Die erbaulich-didaktische Sammelhand-
schrift London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medi-
cine, Western Ms. 49. Farbmikrofiche-Edition. Introduction
to the Manuscript, Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin and
German Texts and Illustrations, Index of Incipits by Almuth
Seebohm, München: Edition Helga Lengenfelder, 1995
(=3D Codices illuminati medii aevi, 39)
There is mountain of studies dealing with death in the middle ages, as
cited
already by others. Maybe the following potpourri from my DBF can be of
help:
ARIÈS Philippe
En face de la mort. Toulouse: Privat, 1983, 222 pp.
ARIÈS Philippe
Essais sur l'histoire de la mort en occident du moyen âge
à nos jours. Paris: Seuil, 1975, 222 pp.
[andere Ausgn.: ibd. 1977, 237 pp.; ibd. 1984 (=3D Collection
Points, Histoire, 31), 237 pp.]
ARIÈS Philippe
Images de l'homme devant la mort. Paris: Seuil, 1983, 276
pp.
ARIÈS Philippe
L'homme devant la mort. Paris: Seuil, 1977, 641 pp.
[andere Ausg.: ibd. 1985 (=3D Collection Points, 82-83),
304+343 pp.]
BANKER James R.
Death in the community: memoralization and confraternities
in an Italian commune in the Late Middle Ages. Athens [et
al.]: University of Georgia Press, 1988, xiv+292 pp.
[Rez. Steven Epstein, Renaissance Quarterly 43,1
(1990), p.155]
BÉRIOU Nicole
Modern questions about medieval sermons. Essays on marriage,
death, history and sanctity, Spoleto: Centro Italiano di
Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1994 (=3D Biblioteca del Medioevo
Latino, 11), xi+408 pp.
BOASE Thomas S. R.
Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgment and Remembran-
ce. London: Thames and Hudson, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972,
144 pp.
BRIESEMEISTER Dietrich
Der Todesgedanke in der spanischen, katalanischen und portu-
giesischen Literatur bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Ha-
bilitationsschrift München, 1967
BRU"CKNER Thomas
Der Tod des Palinurus: Mittelalterliche und humanistische
Kommentare zu einer Episode aus dem 5. Buch der Aeneis, in:
*Studien zur Thematik des Todes im 16. Jahrhundert, ed.
Paul Richard Blum, Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek,
1983 (=3D Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 22), p.49-62
BUHMANN et al.
Dieter Buhmann / B. Kasper / R. Kaufmann,
Krankheit und Tod im ausgehenden Mittelalter: Wiebelskir-
chen, Villingen, Saarbrücken. Wiebelskirchen: Heimat- und
Kulturverein, 1983, 136 pp.
BUTTERFIELD Ardis
Lyric and Elegy in the Book of the Duchess. In: Medium
Aevum 60,1 (1991), p.33-60
CANALI Luca
Vita, sesso, morte nella letteratura latina. Milano: Il
saggiatore, 1987 (=3D La cultura, 55), 86 pp.
CHIFFOLEAU Jacques
La comptabilité de l'au-delà. Les hommes, la mort et la re-
ligion dans la région d'Avignon à la fin du moyen âge (vers
1320 - vers 1480). Préface de Jacques Le Goff. Roma 1980
(=3D Collection de l'École Franc,aise de Rome, 47), x+494 pp.
CIABANI Roberto
Torturati, impiccati, squartati. La pena capitale a Firenze
dal 1423 al 1759. Firenze: Bonecchi, 1994, 174 pp.
CLARK James M.
The dance of death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Glasgow: Jackson, 1950 (=3D Glasgow University Publications,
86), xi+131 pp.
CLARK John Frank
The Hunt as Metaphor: A Study of the Theme of Death in Four
Middle English Poems. Diss., cf. DAI vol.43, no. 11 (May
1983), 3590A
COHN Samuel Kline
Death and property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the
afterlife. Baltimore [et al.]: Johns Hopkins UP, c1988
(=3D The Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
political science, ser. 106, 2), xvii+330 pp.
*DEATH IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Death in the Middle Ages, edited by Herman Braet and Werner
Verbecke, Louvain 1983 (=3D Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, 9)
*DEATH IN TOWNS
*Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the
Dead, 100-1600. Edited by Steven Bassett, Leicester:
Leicester UP, 1992, x+258 pp.
*DIES ILLA
*Dies illa: death in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the
1983 Manchester colloquium, ed. by Jane H. M. Taylor,
Liverpool: Cairns, 1984 (=3D Vinaver Studies in French, 1),
223 pp.
DO"RING-HIRSCH E.
Tod und Jenseits im Spätmittelalter, zugleich ein Beitrag
zur Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Bürgertums. Berlin: K.
Curtius, 1927 (=3D Studien zur Geschichte der Wirtschaft und
Geisteskultur, 2)
DUBRUCK Edelgard
The Theme of Death in in French Poetry of the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance. Den Haag / London / Paris: Mouton,
1964 (=3D Studies in French Literature, 1), 179 pp.
FALVEY Kathleen C.
An Investigation into the Imaginative and Dramatic Context
of the Italian "conforteriä: The Practice of Comforting
Condemned Criminals up to the Moment of Death, in:
Fifteenth-Century Studies vol. 13, no. 213 (1988),
p.535-541
*FOUR LAST THINGS
*Four last things: death, judgement, heaven and hell in the
Middle Ages. 1993 proceedings of the Illinois Medieval As-
sociation, ed. by Allen J. Frantzen, Chicago 1994 (=3D Essays
in medieval studies, 10), 158 pp.
GODENZI Giuseppe
Manifestazioni e considerazioni della morte nella Divina
commedia. Firenze: Firenze Libri, 1986, 166 pp.
HAAS Alois Maria
Todesbilder im Mittelalter. Fakten und Hinweise in der
deutschen Literatur, Darmstadt: WBG, c1989, vii+299 pp.
*HIMMEL HO"LLE FEGEFEUER
*Himmel Hölle Fegefeuer. Das Jenseits im Mittelalter. Eine
Ausstellung des Schweizerischen Landesmuseums in Zusammenar-
beit mit dem Schnütgen-Museum und der Mittelalterabteilung
des Wallraf-Richartz-Museums der Stadt Köln. Katalog von
Peter Jezler, München: Fink, 2., durchgesehene Auflage 1994
[with interesting articles also on death, dying and prepa-
ring for death]
JANKOFSKY Klaus P.
Public Executions in England in the Late Middle Ages: The
Indignity and Dignity of Death. In: Omega 10,1 (1979),
p.43-57
KAY Sarah
The Life of the Dead Body: Death and the Sacred in the
chancson de geste. In: Yale French Studies 86 (1994),
p.94ss.
*LA MORT AU MOYEN AGE
*La mort au moyen âge. Colloque de l'association des histo-
riens médiévistes franc,ais réunis à Strasbourg en juin 1975
au palais universitaire. Avant-propos de Bernard Guillemain,
préface de Phierre Chaunu, conclusions de Freddy Thiriet,
Strasbourg: Istra, 1977 (=3D Société savante d'Alsace et des
régions de l'Est, Recherches et documents, 25), 152 pp.
*LE SENTIMENT DE LA MORT
*Le sentiment de la mort au moyen âge. Études présentées au
5e colloque de l'Institut d'études médiévales de l'Univer-
sité de Montréal, ed. Claude Sutto, Montreal: L'Aurore,
1979, 279 pp.
*LIFE AND DEATH
*Life and death in fifteenth-century Florence, ed. by Marcel
Tetel, Durham / London: Duke UP, 1989 (=3D Duke monographs in
medieval and Renaissance studies, 10), xiv+254 pp.
MARTINEAU-GÉNIEYS Christine
Le thème de la mort dans la poésie franc,aise. De 1450 à
1550, Paris: Champion, 1978 (=3D Nouvelle bibliothèque du
moyen âge, 6), 656 pp.
*MIRRORS OF MORALITY
*Mirrors of Morality: Studies in the Social History of
Death, ed. by Joachim Whaley, New York: St. Martin's, 1981,
xiii+252 pp.
NEWHAUSER Richard G.
"Strong is to flitte": A Middle English Poem on Death and
Its Pastoral Context. In: *Literature and Religion in the
Later Middle Ages. Philological Studies in Honor of Sieg-
fried Wenzel, ed. by Richard G. Newhauser and John A. Al-
ford, Binghamton (NY): MRTS, 1995 (=3D medieval & renaissance
texts & studies, 118), p.319-336
OHLER Norbert
Sterben und Tod im Mittelalter. München [et al.]: Artemis
Verlag, 1990, 320 pp. [paperback ed. München: dtv, 1993
(=3D dtv-Sachbuch, 30383), 319 pp.]
PAXTON Frederick S.
Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in
Early Medieval Europe. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1990,
xvi+229 pp.
PAXTON Frederick S.
The genesis of the medieval Latin death ritual (A.D. 700-
900). Diss. Berkeley Univ., Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985, vii+304
pp.
ROLF Hans
Der Tod in mittelhochdeutschen Dichtungen. Untersuchungen
zum St. Trudberter Hohenlied und zu Gottfrieds von Strass-
burg 'Tristan und Isolde', München: Fink, 1974 (=3D Medium
Aevum, 26), 442 pp.
RUSH Alfred C.
An Echo of Christian Antiquity in St. Gregory the Great:
Death a Struggle with the Devil, in: Traditio 3 (1945),
p.369-379
SCHMITT Jean Claude
Les revenants: les vivants et les morts dans la sociéeté
médiévale, Paris: Gallimard, 1994, 306 pp.
SPINRAD Phoebe S.
The summons of death on the medieval and Reanissance English
stage. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1987, xii+334 pp.
STEGEMEIER H.
The Dance of Death in Folksong. Chicago 1939
TITZMANN Michael
Der Tod als Figur im Drama des deutschsprachigen Gebiets im
16. Jahrhundert: Implikationen und Transformationen. In:
*Interpretation. Das Paradigma der europäischen Renaissan-
ce-Literatur. Festschrift für Alfred Noyer-Weidner zum 60.
Geburtstag, herausgegeben von Klaus W. Hempfer und Gerhard
Regn, Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1983, p.352ss.
*TOD IM MITTELALTER
*Tod im Mittelalter. Herausgegeben von Arno Borst [et al.],
Konstanz: Universit=E4tsverlag, 1993 (=3D Konstanzer Bibliothek,
20), 412 pp.
TRISTRAM Philippa
Figures of life and death in medieval English literature.
London: Elek, 1976, xiii+245 pp.
VOVELLE Michel
La mort et l'occident de 1300 à nos jours. Paris: Gallimard,
1983, 793 pp.
WOLBERT Klaus [ed.]
Memento mori. Der Tod als Thema der Kunst vom Mittelalter
bis zur Gegenwart. Ausstellung im Hessischen Landesmuseum
Darmstadt vom 20.9.1984 bis 28.10.1984, Darmstadt: Hessi-
sches Landesmuseum, 1984, 139 pp.
WOLLGAST Siegfried
Zum Tod im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1992 (=3D Sitzungsberichte der
Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philo-
logisch-Historische Klasse, 132, 1), 60 pp.
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