Death and the Prince

Death and the Prince

Memorial Preaching Before 1350

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This study examines medieval kingship and attitudes to death, and identifies a period in which this-worldly and other-worldly interests were held in a relatively stable equilibrium. David d'Avray's conclusions are based on previously unpublished memorial sermons from fourteenth-century Europe. After giving an outline of the development of the genre from the late Roman Empire, he argues that the portrayal of individual personalities conveyed a message about kingship. The message is shown to be much the same as that of fifteenth-century humanist orations so far as the 'external goods' of wealth ...