The Death Ritual at Cluny in the Central Middle Ages. Le rituel de la mort à Cluny au Moyen Âge central
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Pages: 283 p. Illustrations:7 b/w, 17 col. Language(s):English, Latin, French. Publication Year:2014. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-55010-7. Paperback --- SUMMARY This volume presents a complete reconstruction of the ritual response to terminal illness and death at the monastic community of Cluny at the height of its development in the later eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Based on the best manuscript of the customary of Bernard, the only account of the abbey's customs written at and for Cluny itself, the reconstruction contains not just Bernard's Latin description of the ritual process, but also the full texts of the prayers and chants that accompanied it, gathered, in the absence of surviving ritual books from Cluny itself, from contemporary sources with clear ties to the Cluniac customs. Facing-page English and French translations make the results available to readers with little or no facility in Latin. The author places the Cluniac death ritual in the context of religious responses to death, dying and the care of the dead in medieval Latin Christianity as a whole. He also explicates the origins, development and meaning of the Cluniac death ritual's myriad elements as they were spoken, sung and performed within the sacred spaces of the monastic complex—cloister, chapter house, infirmary, church and cemetery. Frederick S. Paxton is Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of History at Connecticut College, in New London, CT, USA. He is the author of Christianizing Death: The Making of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe (1990), Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: the Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim (2009) and numerous articles and essays on sickness, death, dying and the dead in medieval Europe. Ce volume offre une reconstruction intégrale du rituel de la communauté monastique de Cluny lorsqu’un moine malade était en phase terminale puis mourait, à la fin du XIe-début du XIIe siècle, alors que l’abbaye était au faîte de sa gloire. Sur la base du meilleur manuscrit du coutumier de Bernard, la seule description des coutumes de l’abbaye écrite à Cluny-même pour Cluny, cette reconstruction ne contient pas seulement le texte latin de Bernard décrivant ce rituel mais aussi l’intégralité des prières et chants qui l’accompagnaient. Parce qu’aucun livre liturgique de Cluny n’a survécu, ces prières et chants sont extraits de sources contemporaines liées aux coutumes clunisiennes. Des traductions en anglais et en français font face au texte latin, rendant ainsi ce texte fascinant accessible aux lecteurs maîtrisant peu ou prou le latin médiéval. Par ailleurs, dans l’introduction et le commentaire, Frederick Paxton interprète le rituel clunisien de la mort dans le contexte de la conception chrétienne, médiévale et latine de l’agonie, de la mort et du soin aux morts. Il explique en outre, dans le commentaire, les origines, le développement et la signification de la multitude des éléments du rituel clunisien de la mort chantés, parlés et mis en scène dans les espaces sacrés du complexe monastique – le cloître, la salle du chapitre, l’infirmerie, l’église et le cimetière.…
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- The Death Ritual at Cluny in the Central Middle Ages. Le rituel de la mort à Cluny au Moyen Âge central
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- Frederick Paxton, Isabelle Cochelin
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