 | The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity Subjects: Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Funeral rites and ceremonies Ancient -- Rome -- Religious aspects; Funeral rites and ceremonies Ancient -- Religious aspects; In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the... Eric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at Cornell University. He is the author of In hora mortis and editor of L'Année philologique on the Internet. Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings is an independent translator. Jeanine Routier-Pucci is Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language at Cornell University. |
