From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

by Eire, Carlos M. N.
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ISBN: 9780521460187
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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: Hardcover
  • Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
  • ISBN: 9780521460187
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.34 x 1.52
  • Number Of Pages: 588
  • Publication Year: 1995
Language: English

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