From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. 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 hundreds of sixteenth-century Madrid testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.
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From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. 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 hundreds of sixteenth-century Madrid testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521460187 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 06/30/1995 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History |
Pages: | 588 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.50(d) |
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