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Course Description

 

 

This course will explore rituals, images, and monuments associated with death and dying in late medieval and early modern Europe. Topics to be considered include cultural attitudes toward death; the impact of the Black Death; the ars moriendi (the art of dying well), the relation between death and eroticism; funeral rites and burial practices, and tomb sculpture and mortuary structures in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain.


 

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