Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

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Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. It explores attitudes towards the dead in pre-Reformation religious culture, and traces the uncertain progress of the 'reformation of the dead' attempted by Protestant authorities who sought to stamp out belief in purgatory and associated rituals. It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife, of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts, and of the patterns of commemoration characteristic of post-Reformation England. Together these topics constitute an important case-study in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural change.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199273720
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication date: 9/9/2004
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 358
  • Sales rank: 1,237,409
  • Product dimensions: 9.20 (w) x 6.10 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick.

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Table of Contents

1 The presence of the dead : memory and obligation before the reformation 6
2 Debates over the dead : purgatory and polemic in Henrician England 47
3 'Rage against the dead' : reform, counter-reform, and the death of purgatory 93
4 The regulation of the dead: ritual and reform in the English Church, c.1560-1630 124
5 The estate of the dead : the afterlife in the protestant imagination 188
6 The disorderly dead : ghosts and their meanings in reformation England 232
7 Remembering the dead : commemoration and memory in protestant culture 265
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