The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity. By Éric Rebillard. Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings and Jeanine Routier-Pucci
This is a welcome translation of Éric Rebillard’s 2003 book Religion et sépulture: L’église, les vivants et les morts dans l’antiquité tardive, which incorporates minor authorial revisions to the original. The first part sets Christian burial practice alongside that of pagans and Jews, and its princ...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 760-763 |
| Review of: | The care of the dead in late antiquity (Ithaca [u.a.] : Cornell Univ. Press, 2009) (Finn, Richard Damian)
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| Summary: | This is a welcome translation of Éric Rebillard’s 2003 book Religion et sépulture: L’église, les vivants et les morts dans l’antiquité tardive, which incorporates minor authorial revisions to the original. The first part sets Christian burial practice alongside that of pagans and Jews, and its principal thesis, contrary to the previous scholarly consensus, is that ‘burial and commemoration of the dead’ were normally left by the bishops ‘out of their sphere of control and to the care of the family’ (p. x). It was they who determined whether clergy were present, and there was no set funerary rite. Leading bishops of the fourth century sought to influence the customs of lay Christians, but their success was at best limited. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq098 |