The Art of Dying Well: The Development of the "Ars moriendi". Mary Catherine O'Connor

1943 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Archer Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Art Of Dying

Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying and Women's Poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 339-344
Author(s):  
Rachel Cope ◽  
Amy Harris ◽  
Jane Hinckley
Keyword(s):  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Art Of Dying

scholarly journals Traktat ars moriendi w literaturze ukraińskiego baroku na przykładzie dzieła Катихисїс албо наука христїанская Innocentego Winnickiego

2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Denys Pilipowicz
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
The West ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Art Of Dying

The ars moriendi treatise in Ukrainian baroque literature: The example of Innocenty Winnicki’s Catechism, or the Knowledge of Christianity The author of this article focuses on bishop Innoceny Winnicki’s Catechism, or the Knowledge of Christianity and its relationship to European ars moriendi texts. The art of dying gave sick and elderly people practical tips on how to prepare for death and how to achieve salvation. The author shows the reception of Latin Catholic literature patterns in the literature of the Ukrainian baroque period and the cultural characteristics of the Polish-Ukrainian cultural border, where the influence of the East and the West overlapped.  Трактат арс морієнді в літературі українського бароко на прикладі Катихисїс албо наука христїанская Інокентія ВинницькогоПрезентована стаття присвячена характеристиці твору перемиського єпископа Інокентія Винницького на фоні жанрових зразків присутніх у західноєвропейській літературі. Суттю мистецтва вмирання було передати людям хворим та старшим, які наближаються до кінця свого життя практичні поради як готуватися на смерть та отримати спасіння. Проведений аналіз дав змогу показати рецепцію латинських, католицьких літературних зразків в українській літературі аналізованого періоду та показати культурну своєрідність польсько-українського пограниччя, де сплітаються впливи Сходу й Заходу.

LEARNING FROM LAZARUS: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LUTHERAN ART OF DYING

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 139-184
Author(s):  
Janette Tilley
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Musical Settings ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
Art Of Dying ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Musical Forms

The story of the Rich Man and Lazarus is the foundation upon which German composers of the seventeenth century experimented with longer musical forms. Composers interpolate new poetic material to a higher degree than with any other scriptural story, apart from the Passion. Additions to the story range from simple funeral songs for Lazarus to elaborate contrapuntal drinking songs for the Rich Man and his five brothers. We would expect the meaning imposed on the story in musical settings to be in line with local theology and exegesis. However, a close look at musical settings reveals how much they diverge from common theological explications. Onto the story of poverty, wealth, mercy and the fate of the soul are welded other topoi of Lutheran theology, including vanitas, penitence and the art of dying (Sterbekunst or ars moriendi), which effectively reinterpret the story in a direction not typically undertaken by writers of sermons and devotional volumes.

scholarly journals Traktaty o czterech ostatecznych rzeczach człowieka w literaturze czeskiej XVI i XVII wieku. Zarys problematyki

2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
Klaudia Koczur-Lejk
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Art Of Dying

Treatises on four ultimate truths about the human condition in 16th and 17th century Czech literature an outline of issuesCzech literature of the 16th and 17th century was for readers of that time an important source of admonishment concerning death and afterlife. Manuals about the art of dying — ars moriendi books — provided ample advice on how to die a “good death”. Besides that, their authors focused also on other issues of ultimate importance for human beings, i.e. death, God’s judgment, heaven and hell. The aim of the treatises was to make readers lead a good life through constant pondering over death and the uncertainty of the soul’s fate in the afterlife. Descriptions of various tortures suffered by the damned in hell were meant to frighten sinners, make them repent and change their lives. Descriptions of heaven, on the other hand, were supposed to lure people into doing good. According to the Catholic dogma, after death, the soul can go to heaven, hell or purgatory. The Protestant Reformation rejected purgatory as wishful human fiction, and returned to a traditional dualistic view of the afterlife.  Traktáty o čtyřech posledních věcech člověka v české literatuře 16. a 17. století náčrt problematikyČeská náboženská vzdělávací literatura 16. a 17. století představovala pro čtenáře důležitý zdroj poučení o smrti a posmrtném životě. Příručky šťastného umírání — knihy ars moriendi přinášely rady, jak má dobrá smrt vypadat. Kromě této problematiky se autoři zabývali tématy souvisejícími s posledními věcmi člověka, to je smrtí, božím soudem, peklem a nebem. Cílem traktátů bylo přimět čtenaře k dobrému životu prostřednictvím myšlenky na smrt a nejistý posmrtný osud duše. Líčení pekelných trestů mělo vyvolat u hříšníků hrůzu, přimět je, aby změnili své chování a nastoupili cestu pokání. Popisy ráje měly lákat a přitahovat. Podle katolíků duše po smrti mohla jít do nebe, pekla nebo ji čekal očistěc, kde měla smýt hříchy a poté vstoupit na nebesa. Reformace odmítla učení o očistci, a proto na něm protestanští autoři zdůrazňovali lidský výmysl.

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