From Madrid to Purgatory

The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

By:

Carlos M.N. Eire

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

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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.

Release date NZ

July 25th, 2002

Author

Carlos M.N. Eire

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

22 Tables, unspecified; 3 Maps; 10 Halftones, unspecified; 14 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

588

Series

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

Dimensions

154x239x40

ISBN-13

9780521529426

Product ID

1976871

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