From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521529425
ISBN13:9780521529426
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:588 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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