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A very thorough and up-to-date study of death and burial in early medieval society." - Guy Halsall, Birkbeck College, University of London The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian, or so-called "Long-Haired" Kings from 500 to 800 C.E. Funerals provided an opportunity for the display of wealth through elaborate ceremonies involving the placement of goods such as weapons, jewelry, and ceramic vessels in graves and the use of aboveground monuments. In the late seventh century, however, these practices gave way to Masses and prayers for the dead performed by clerics at churches removed from cemeteries. Effros explains that this shift occurred not because inhabitants were becoming bette

Who reads Caring for Body and Soul : Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World?

Author

Effros, Bonnie.

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271021966

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Folklore

Rating

4.12 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14