Townsend Eleanor:
Death And Art
Europe 1200-1530
V & A Publishing (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 96 pages
Size: 208x187 mm
ISBN: 9781851775835
ISBN-10: 1851775838
List price: £14.99
You save: 30%
Death And Art
In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, where life expectancy was under forty and the Church taught that, after dying, the soul faced a terrifying and uncertain onward journey, death in Medieval and Renaissance Europe was a major preoccupation. This book sets out the beliefs surrounding death and the afterlife in a mainly Catholic Europe.
