Add to ORKGThe eulogies and memento mori aspects engraved or sculpted in marble of the funerary monuments and slabs of the Knights of the Order of St John at St John's Co-Cathedral, the former Conventual Church of the Order, are meant to remind passers-by of their mortality and that they should prepare for the inevitable. In Western Christianity culture, living well and dying well were major achievements for each pious Christian. The Knights of St John were no exception, were they?peer-reviewe
This dissertation examines approaches to illustrating the Three Living and the Three Dead, a moraliz...
This article explores Caitlin Doughty’s “death positivity” as an evolved form of the medieval mement...
This study is of a predominantly socio-anthropological nature, dealing with the traditions, beliefs,...
J. Todd Billings, in his book, helps us ponder how we might live well even though we live in the ful...
MOTH is a research project about the Design of Death, respecting traditional and conventional associ...
There is an ancient Christian tradition of a ‘good and holy death’. That tradition has largely been ...
This paper was originally prepared for Course HART 377 (CRN 13444) Fall 2018: Medieval Manuscripts, ...
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The tomb of Philip the Bold, the first Valois duke of Burgundy, was originally installed in the Char...
The jasper skulls in this Curiosity Cabinet sit on the scale atop the touch-ables table. Jasper, a t...
The floor of St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, is in many ways exceptional. The quality and...
The development of ethics with samples of period fine art pieces with the emphasis on Christian view...
This dissertation examines approaches to illustrating the Three Living and the Three Dead, a moraliz...
This article explores Caitlin Doughty’s “death positivity” as an evolved form of the medieval mement...
This study is of a predominantly socio-anthropological nature, dealing with the traditions, beliefs,...
J. Todd Billings, in his book, helps us ponder how we might live well even though we live in the ful...
MOTH is a research project about the Design of Death, respecting traditional and conventional associ...
There is an ancient Christian tradition of a ‘good and holy death’. That tradition has largely been ...
This paper was originally prepared for Course HART 377 (CRN 13444) Fall 2018: Medieval Manuscripts, ...
The Danse Macabre (the Dance of Death) is a 15th-century conceit, both pictorial and textual, of the...
Stories like St. John’s trial in boiling oil, pictured in Kerver\u27s 1507 Book of Hours, were used ...
Contemporary conversations about death and dying are lost and unsatisfying on many levels. This phen...
The intention of the exhibition Memento: Remembering Roman Lives is exactly that—to remember the pe...
The tomb of Philip the Bold, the first Valois duke of Burgundy, was originally installed in the Char...
The jasper skulls in this Curiosity Cabinet sit on the scale atop the touch-ables table. Jasper, a t...
The floor of St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, is in many ways exceptional. The quality and...
The development of ethics with samples of period fine art pieces with the emphasis on Christian view...
This dissertation examines approaches to illustrating the Three Living and the Three Dead, a moraliz...
This article explores Caitlin Doughty’s “death positivity” as an evolved form of the medieval mement...
This study is of a predominantly socio-anthropological nature, dealing with the traditions, beliefs,...