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

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.

Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/25/2002
Pages: 588
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.18w x 1.41d
ISBN: 9780521529426

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