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

From Madrid to Purgatory

The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

By: Carlos Eire, John Elliott (Editor), Olwen Hufton (Editor)

Hardcover | 13 November 1995

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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.
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'This is a finely researched, lucidly written and carefully nuanced study.' Henry Kamen, The Times Literary Supplement

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