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The posthumous condition of gossip: Death and its reputational benediction
2017
Gossiping is ubiquitous in social life. In every imaginable corner of society, people from all walks of life are gossiping their living acquaintances. But what happens when the “third party,” i.e., the subject of gossip, is absent par excellence, not only temporarily and spatially, but definitively? Do people continue to gossip their dead acquaintances? What is the fate of gossip after its target dies? These are the questions this paper sets out to address. In doing so, it develops a non-reductionist sequential model of death as a social process in which biological death is only the starting point of the bio-social phenomenon of dying. Building on some classic anthropological theories and c…
Recuerdos figurados. "Fotos de familia" en Sicilia
2020
“Life is not what you have lived, but what you remember and how you remem- ber it to tell”. Taking cue from the words of Gabriel García Márquez, the essay analyzes a gallery of photographic images portraying “family photos”, made in Sicily between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, which are placed in an inter- mediate space between oral and written traditions becoming “biographical object”. The analysis of the photographic corpus searches for the connections between the different events that the image has gone through (production, transmission, fruition). It is in his “life story”, in his passage from one generation to the other, from one type of represe…
Architetture funerarie effimere a Palermo
2007
Il saggio è stato commissionato specificatamente dai curatori del volume nell’ambito del PRIN per aggiungere un contributo relativamente all’argomento dell’architettura funebre in Italia riferita, però, a quella effimera particolarmente caratterizzata da un'ampia varietà. L’esperienza palermitana, meno nota di altre, è ricca di esemplari particolarmente significativi che attraversano i secoli toccando tutti i lessici riflessi del gusto che dal barocco giunge ai neostili. Lo studio si è soffermato su un arco temporale che va dalla seconda metà del ’700 alla prima metà dell’800, prendendo in esame fonti a stampa, cronache e materiale grafico inedito dell’archivio Palazzotto di Palermo in mani…
Придворные королевские церемонии и их рецепция в праздничной жизни Речи Посполитой
2020
The author traces the transition of the royal court of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Western European model of court ceremonies, which lasted for almost two centuries, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Initially, they followed the ceremonial models of the House of Habsburg and, starting in the 1640s, the French ceremonial, refined at the Versailles of Louis XIV. Meant to extol the monarch in the eyes of subjects, such ceremonies became widespread under kings of the House of Vasa, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Jan III Sobieski, and the House of Wettin. Many etiquette elements and ceremonial patterns were borrowed and adapted to the needs of the wealthy Polish and Lit…
An antique lead coffin discovered in Évreux (Eure): a multidisciplinary study
2013
The Roman cemetery of le Clos au Duc in Évreux (Eure) lasted from the 1st to the 4th c. AD. The most common funerary practice in the 1st c. AD was cremation. From the beginning of the 2nd c. AD this rapidly gave place to inhumation burials. By the end of the 3rd c. lead coffins could be found in burials, but it remained a minority practice reserved for an elite. The 2010 excavation in Évreux allowed the recovery of an example of these. It was incomplete, but the good preservation of its remains made a multidisciplinary study possible. Apart from the bones of a young woman, the lead coffin contained coins, textile, fur, calcite (CaCO3) and insects. These results make it possible to retrace t…
LIMINARY IMAGES. THE RITES OF PASSAGE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS OF THE SICILIAN FAMILIES OF THE XX SEC.
2017
“Life is not what you have lived, but what you remember and how you remember it to tell“. Taking cue from the words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the essay analyzes a gallery of photographic images portraying «family photos», made in Sicily between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, which are placed in an intermediate space between oral and written traditions becoming «biographical object». The analysis of the photographic corpus searches for the connections between the different events that the image has gone through (production, transmission, fruition). It is in his «life story», in his passage from one generation to the other, from one type of representat…
Evolution of the suicides’ right to funeral and burial in Canon Law and Polish Law
2020
For centuries, funeral law was not too favourable to suicides. Admittedly, at the dawn of Christianity this group of the deceased was not refused religious funeral celebrations or a burial, yet, the situation changed along with the Catholic religion gaining significance. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, suicides were deprived of the right to a religious funeral. Furthermore, in the 11th century the ecclesiastical legislator forbade burial for suicides in “holy places.” Until modern times, therefore, suicides were buried at a distance from grave- yards. This in practice often indicated a burial insulting human dignity. The monopoly on religious funeral regulations only ended in Europe at…
La buona morte di Filippo iv e la proclamazione del suo successore. Un modello di comunicazione in età barocca
2021
Nella prima età moderna, l’importanza attribuita dalla società del tempo al rituale funebre ha portato l’attenzione degli studiosi sulle pratiche funerarie e sugli apparati effimeri commissionati agli artisti di corte, con il susseguirsi di numerosi studi che hanno analizzato il fenomeno sotto vari punti di vista, trovando spesso una contestualizzazione territoriale della produzione effimera, esaminando scrupolosamente le cerimonie funebri della monarchia spagnola: Il trattamento dei corpi, imbalsamazione, l’abito dei monarchi, il tipo di sepoltura, il corteo funebre, le cappelle ardenti o i modi di mostrare il dolore. Un impegno comune inizia ad apparire dalla serie di belle morti, che acc…
L'occupation humaine du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg à l'âge du Bronze Final : inventaire des sites et bilan de l'état de la documentation
2017
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Teologia nadziei w posoborowych obrzędach pogrzebowych
2016
The faith in C hrisfs resurrection had a great impact on the funeral rites of the early Church. For his followers, the day o f death was not considered as the end o f everything but, indeed, it was regarded the day of birth for heaven. The spirit of hope for etemal life characterized the Funeral Rites o f the first Christian communities. Also the Second Vatican Council has ordered to arrange the Rites in such a way that they would express more clearly the Paschal character of death of the contemporary Christians. But in the last decades of the 20th century incredible changes o f the former funeral customs have been noted. It is clearly evident especially in the societies that - embraced by …