TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hugener, Rainer
AB  - Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval Switzerland    How were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the Middle Ages? Based on intertextual relations between necrologies, rent-rolls, and chronicles from Swiss regions, this study shows how commemorating the dead required new techniques of writing that were not only meant to promote salvation, but also helped enforce local lordship. By celebrating the anniversaries of battles and other crucial events, the authorities of the Swiss cantons propagated a historical concept of identity which continues to influence Switzerland's self-perception even today. Rainer Hugener emphasizes the role of religious commemoration for the development of "modern" bureaucracy and offers a new perspective on the founding myths of the Swiss Con-federacy. The book is completed by an exhaustive catalogue of more than 1000 pre-modern necrologies from Swiss monasteries, cathedrals, collegiate and parish churches.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_605212
ID  - OAPEN ID: 605212
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030816040
KW  - commemorating the dead
KW  - necrologies
KW  - development of bureaucracy
KW  - Bern
KW  - Jahrzeit
KW  - Jahrzeitbuch
KW  - Memorialwesen
KW  - Nekrolog
KW  - Urbar (Verzeichnis)
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ba45c81e-156c-479d-a659-03c676c3db08/605212.pdf
LA  - German
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32786
PB  - Chronos Verlag
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9783034011969
TI  - Buchführung für die Ewigkeitnull
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