Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750 (Oxford Studies in Social History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750 (Oxford Studies in Social History) Book

This book shows how the religious upheavals of the early modern period brought changes in responding to death affecting the last rites funerals and ways of remembering the dead. It examines the interaction between religious innovation and the continuing need for reassurance and consolation on the part of the dying and the bereaved.Read More

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    Both the interest and importance of the social history of death have been increasingly recognized during the last thirty years. Here, Houlbrooke examines the impact of religious change on the English "way of death" between 1480 and 1750. He discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject, such as the death-bed, will-making, and last rites. He also studies the wide variety of commemorative media and practices, and is the first to describe the development of the English funeral sermon between the late Middle Ages and the 18th century. Houlbrooke shows how the need of the living to remember the dead remained important throughout the later medieval and early modern periods, even though its justification and means of expression were altered.

  • 0198217617
  • 9780198217619
  • Ralph Houlbrooke
  • 29 October 1998
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 456
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