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From Madrid to Purgatory - The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover, New)
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From Madrid to Purgatory - The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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This is the first full-length study of Spanish attitudes toward
death and the afterlife in the peak years of the
Counter-Reformation. It contains an analysis of the death rituals
requested in sixteenth-century Madrid testaments, as well as a
detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of King
Philip II and St. Teresa of Avila were interpreted by
contemporaries. Though focused on death, it also aims to analyze
the ethos of Spanish Catholic piety and belief in an age of
profound transformations. This is a history of mentalities that
combines quantitative and qualitative methods and analyzes the
symbiotic relation between beliefs and cultural structures. It is a
study of the relation between popular piety and elite theology,
between paradigms and deeds, myth and ritual, art and craft. Though
concentrating exclusively on Spain, this study places the early
modern Spanish mentality in the wider context of the European
Reformation and Counter-Reformation and of Western attitudes toward
death.
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