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The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, C.1450-1700

The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, C.1450-1700

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Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

AnthropologyGeneral ChristianityGerman History

ISBN10: 0333666852
ISBN13: 9780333666852
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 21 1999
Pages: 223
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. The Protestant Reformation transformed the funeral more profoundly than any other ritual of the traditional church. Luther's doctrine of salvation 'by faith alone' made the foundation of the traditional funeral, intercession for the dead in Purgatory, obsolete. By drawing on anthropological interpretations of death ritual, this study explores the changing relationships between the body, the soul, the living and the dead in the daily life of early modern Germany.

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