Medieval Memento Mori
Since memento mori and related images were created to encourage people to think about death in terms of christian salvation there are plenty of demons to be found in medieval images of death particularly in deathbed scenes.
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This phrase and the symbols and sayings associated with it were particularly popular in the medieval church. Memento mori or remember your death is the latin phrase long associated with the practice of remembering the unpredictable and inevitable end of one s life. Memento mori and vanitas elements in the funerary art at st.
A brief history of memento mori in europe. Not classical but late medieval or early modern latin is derived from latin mementō singular imperative of meminisse to remember latin morī to die. The new latin i e.
Several articles on this topic at the matheson trust library.
