A Tender Spot: Care, Memory, and Place in Carolingian Memoria Mortuorum
Amber Suzanne McClure
OF THESIS A TENDER SPOT: CARE, MEMORY AND PLACE IN CAROLINGIAN MEMORIA MORTUORUM This thesis argues that in the Carolingian period, rituals for memory of dead, or memoria mortuorum, was built on structures utilized location, space, and architecture as devices creating mnemonic images remembering. It also theological significance which heavily debated, from Augustine to Carolingians there is a shift approaches aspects practices including burial ad sanctos communal prayers. Augustine’s work left an unresolved problem: need reconcile aspect with function dead. In process reconciliation began, but much focus relationship between God communities living dead expressed proper care be taken after someone passes on.