Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition by Armando Petrucci

Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition

Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture

Armando Petrucci with Michael Sullivan (Translator)

163 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin--and why have they continued--to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a "written death"? What differen...

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