Death in the Byzantine Empire
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Death in the Byzantine Empire
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In the Byzantine Empire, death was generally not mentioned directly, preferring to use various euphemisms such as separation, leaving-by, paying off debts-paying. Byzantine thanatological conceptions go back to ancient philosophy, which presented death as the separation of the soul from the body. According to Christian eschatology, it was assumed that this separation was temporary and that the soul would be reunited with the body at the end of time. The Byzantines believed that death occurred at
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Byzantine concepts and rituals related to death
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_the_Byzantine_Empire
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2024-08-27T01:33:15Z
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2024-09-09T22:41:45Z
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