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Rituals for the Dead - Religion and Community in the Medieval University of Paris (Hardcover)
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Rituals for the Dead - Religion and Community in the Medieval University of Paris (Hardcover)
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In his fascinating new book, based on the Conway Lectures he
delivered at Notre Dame in 2016, William Courtenay examines aspects
of the religious life of one medieval institution, the University
of Paris, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In place of
the traditional account of teaching programs and curriculum,
however, the focus here is on religious observances and the
important role that prayers for the dead played in the daily life
of masters and students. Courtenay examines the university as a
consortium of sub-units in which the academic and religious life of
its members took place, and in which prayers for the dead were a
major element. Throughout the book, Courtenay highlights reverence
for the dead, which preserved their memory and was believed to
reduce the time in purgatory for deceased colleagues and for
founders of and donors to colleges. The book also explores the
advantages for poor scholars of belonging to a confraternal
institution that provided benefits to all members regardless of
social background, the areas in which women contributed to the
university community, including the founding of colleges, and the
growth of Marian piety, seeking her blessing as patron of
scholarship and as protector of scholars. Courtenay looks at
attempts to offset the inequality between the status of masters and
students, rich and poor, and college founders and fellows, in
observances concerned with death as well as rewards and punishments
in the afterlife. Rituals for the Dead is the first book-length
study of religious life and remembrances for the dead at the
medieval University of Paris. Scholars of medieval history will be
an eager audience for this title.
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