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From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Eire, Carlos
Elliott, John
Hufton, Olwen

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

General ChristianitySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0521460182
ISBN13: 9780521460187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 30 1995
Pages: 588
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.52 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
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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