The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern EuropeBruce Gordon, Peter Marshall Although much has been published on the social history of death, this is the first book to give a comprehensive account of attitudes towards the dead--above all the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms--in order to reveal the social and religious outlook of past societies. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife, and ghosts. |
Contents
Introduction placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe | 1 |
The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany towards a comparative history of the Black Death | 17 |
Longing to be prayed for death and commemoration in an English parish in the later Middle Ages | 44 |
Spirits seeking bodies death possession and communal memory in the Middle Ages | 66 |
Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss Reformation | 87 |
The map of Gods word geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England | 110 |
Contesting sacred space burial disputes in sixteenthcentury France | 131 |
Defyle not Christs kirk with your carrion burial and the development of burial aisles in postReformation Scotland | 149 |
Women memory and willmaking in Elizabethan England | 188 |
Death prophecy and judgement in Transylvania | 206 |
Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenthcentury France | 224 |
The worst death becomes a good death the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderon | 240 |
Tokens of innocence infant baptism death and burial in early modern England | 266 |
The afterlives of monstrous infants in Reformation Germany | 288 |
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Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris | 170 |
Common terms and phrases
afterlife altar angels ASCB baptism belief Bethlen Black Death Blarer body burial aisles burial place buried Cambridge Catholic celebrated cemetery chapel Chiffoleau child chrisom Christ Christian church clergy cloth commemoration corpse cultural dead deceased demons Deregnaucourt died Discalced Carmelites divine Don Rodrigo Douai early modern England elite Elizabethan English English Reformation faith Felipe III fifteenth Florence France funeral sermons Gábor Gábor Bethlen ghosts György Heaven Hell Historia de Felipe History Huguenots human Ibid individual infants István János John Juderías judgement king Kirkburton late medieval Lavater Lerma living London Luis de Góngora masses Medgyesi medieval Medieval England memory Middle Ages ministers mort Nagyvárad Novoa Paris parish Philip plague popular prayers preachers priest princes Protestant Purgatory Rákóczi Reformation Religion religious Renaissance rites Ritual Rodrigo Calderón Saints Sárospatak Scotland Scottish seventeenth century sixteenth century social Society Sorbin souls testaments testators theological tion traditional Transylvania vols women