Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Illustrations 9
4. Introduction 13
5. 1. The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy 31
6. 2. Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice 57
7. 3. Repellent Death: Time, Rot, and the Death of the Body 97
8. 4. The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus, and Death Undone 157
9. Conclusions 205
10. Bibliography 211
11. Index of Manuscripts 231
12. General Index 233