Death and Dying in the Middle Ages


Harlaxton Medieval Studies XXXIII

Death and Dying in the Later Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 2022 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, ed. Christian Steer and Jenny Stratford


List of Contributors

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Editors’ Preface


THE PAMELA TUDOR-CRAIG MEMORIAL LECTURE

T.A. Heslop, The Will of God and the Death of Kings: 1066 and the Owner of the Tiberius Psalter, 1-20


SUDDEN DEATH

Henry Summerson, Sudden Death in Medieval London: Actions and Responses, 21-37

Trevor Dean, Death at Female Hands: Women and Homicide in Bologna, 1340-1500, 38-50


THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

Nicholas Watson, Teaching the Afterlife in Later Medieval England: Les Peines de Purgatorie, 51-72

Julia Boffey, Confronting Death in Later Medieval English Verse: Shades of the Three Living and the Three Dead, 73-88

A.S.G. Edwards, Laments for the Dead in Late Medieval English Verse, 89-102


CHANTRIES

† Clive Burgess, ‘Matters of Life and Death’: Disinterring the Late Medieval Chantry, 102-120

Nicholas Flory, Pour leur bonne prosperité‘: Isabella of Portugal and her Carthusian Foundations, 121-135


FUNERALS AND WILLS

Jane Bridgeman, The State Funeral in Florence of Niccolò Mauruzzi da Tolentino, Conte di Stacciola, 20 April 1435, 136-151

Lisa Monnas, Magnificent Post Mortem: The Hearse-cloths of Henry VII in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 152-171

Richard Asquith, Death and its Documentation: Executing the Will of Sir Thomas Lucy (d. 1525), 172-187


MONUMENTS

Ann J. Adams, Viewing Death in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse (d. 1492), 188-204

Julian Luxford, ‘The greatest curiosity of the mind’: The Chantry Chapel of Prior Rowland Leschman (d. 1499) at Hexham Abbey, 205-224


Index of Manuscripts

Index of Archival Documents

General Index

Colour Plates

List of Harlaxton Medieval Studies