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Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Cressy, David

Hardcover

AnthropologyBritish HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0198201680
ISBN13: 9780198201687
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 19 1997
Pages: 658
Weight: 2.48
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.49 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration.

Each of the major rituals was potentially an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they also set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not everybody could pass. In practice, ritual performance revealed frictions and fractures that everyday local discourse attempted to hide or to heal.

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