The place of the dead
Subtitle: death and remembrance in late medieval and early modern Europe
By: edited by Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall.
Contributors: Gordon, Bruce, 1962-; Marshall, Peter, 1964-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Europe -- History; Dead; Europe -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe / Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall; title: The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the black death / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.; title: 'Longing to be prayed for': death and commemoration in an English parish in the later middle ages / Clive Burgess; title: Spirits seeking bodies: death, possession and communal memory in the middle ages / Nancy Caciola; title: Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels: apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss reformation / Bruce Gordon; title: 'The map of God's work': geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England / Peter Marshall; title: Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France / Penny Roberts; title: 'Defyle not Christ's kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-reformation Scotland / Andrew Spicer; title: Whose body? a study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris / Vanessa Harding; title: Women, memory and will-making in Elizabethan England / J.S.W. Helt; title: Death, prophecy and judgement in Transylvania / Graeme Murdock; title: Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenth-century France / Larissa Juliet Taylor; title: The worst death becomes a good death: the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderón / James M. Boyden; title: Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England / Will Coster; title: The afterlives of monstrous infants in reformation Germany / Philip M. Soergel