From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)

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...

By Carlos M. N. Eire
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Paperback: 588 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 25, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780521529426
ISBN-13: 978-0521529426
ASIN: 0521529425
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.4 x 9.1 inches
Amazon Rank: 2507703
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook

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I really loved this book. It is beautifully written and full of fascinating descriptions of death in a world that was very different from our own. Because I loved this book so much I purchased Carlos Eire's "Reformations" which lived up to my expecta

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