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Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of
life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been
identified as of critical importance in understanding the social
and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated processes of
dying, death and burial inevitably generated heightened emotion and
a strong concern for religious propriety: the ways in which
funerary customs were accepted, rejected, modified and contested
can therefore grant us a powerful insight into the religious and
social mindset of individuals, communities, Churches and even
nation states in the post-reformation period. This collection
provides an historiographical overview of recent work on dying,
death and burial in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe and
draws together ten essays from historians, literary scholars,
musicologists and others working at the cutting edge of research in
this area. As well as an interdisciplinary perspective, it also
offers a broad geographical and confessional context, ranging
across Catholic and Protestant Europe, from Scotland, England and
the Holy Roman Empire to France, Spain and Ireland. The essays
update and augment the body of literature on dying, death and
disposal with recent case studies, pointing to future directions in
the field. The volume is organised so that its contents move
dynamically across the rites of passage, from dying to death,
burial and the afterlife. The importance of spiritual care and
preparation of the dying is one theme that emerges from this work,
extending our knowledge of Catholic ars moriendi into Protestant
Britain. Mourning and commemoration; the fate of the soul and its
post-mortem management; the political uses of the dead and their
resting places, emerge as further prominent themes in this new
research. Providing contrasts and comparisons across different
European regions and across Catholic and Protestant regions, the
collection contributes to and extends the existing literature on
this important historiographical theme.
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