Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

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By D. Vance Smith, professor of English

Published Sept. 24, 2020

In Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England (University of Chicago Press), D. Vance Smith, professor of English, tackles the struggle of talking about death in the Middle Ages, piecing together theory with philosophy and spanning literature from Old English to late medieval periods.

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