Commemorating the Dead (eBook)

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Laurie Brink, O.P., Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deborah Green, University of Oregon, USA.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 13
Introduction 15
Chapter 1. An Overview of the Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology 25
Chapter 2. Housing the Dead: The Tomb as House in Roman Italy 53
Chapter 3. Commemorating the Dead in the Communal Cemeteries of Carthage 93
Chapter 4. Dining with the Dead: From the Mensa to the Altar in Christian Late Antiquity 121
Chapter 5. Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials 159
Chapter 6. From Columbaria to Catacombs: Collective Burial in Pagan and Christian Rome 191
Chapter 7. Roman and Christian Burial Practices and the Patronage of Women 257
Chapter 8. From Endymion in Roman Domus to Jonah in Christian Catacombs: From Houses of the Living to Houses for the Dead. Iconography and Religion in Transition 287
Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius: Reimagining Contexts of Interpretation of the “Earliest Christian Inscription” 317
Backmatter 351

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