Frederick Paxton

Connecticut College · History

In 1994, I was invited to hold a day-long seminar at the School of Music-Thanatology at St.PatrickHospital in Missoula, Montana. The school was on the verge of graduating its first class of “contemplative musicians,” men and women who had trained for two years to care for the “physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the dying” with “prescriptive...

The liturgy of death and dying at the great Benedictine abbey of Cluny first caught my attention over 25 years ago. Returning time and again to the textual remains of Cluniac death rituals: translating, teaching, and writing about them, considering them from various points of view—the history of monasticism, the cure of the body and care of the sou...

Hrabanus Maurus apporta une large contribution a l'histoire de l'enseignement et de la culture du IX e siecle, et est souvent cite dans l'histoire de la medecine du Moyen Age pour son soutien a l'enseignement medical des clericaux

In The Glory of the Martyrs , a collection of miracle stories completed by the early 590s, Bishop Gregory of Tours included a chapter on the Burgundian king Sigismund. A Catholic convert from the Arian Christianity of his father, Sigismund had founded a monastery at Agaune, the present St.-Maurice, Switzerland (Wallis/Valais), in the year 515. Afte...

After the apostolic period, in which miraculous healings announced the coming of the kingdom of God, the Christian communities of antiquity developed two modes of response to the presence of sickness among their members.1 They prayed directly to God for the recovery of the sick and they performed rituals of healing, either through the laying on of...

Thesis (Ph. D. in History)--University of California, Berkeley, May 1985. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-304).