From Madrid to Purgatory : The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
ISBN-10
0521460182
ISBN-13
9780521460187
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 1995
Print length
588 Pages
Weight
996 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.10 x 4.30 cms
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This is the first full-length study of Spanish attitudes towards death and the afterlife during the peak years of the Counter-Reformation. It includes detailed accounts of the ways in which the 'good' deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. In sixteenth-century Spain, the social and economic debts of the living were extended to the dead, and society's central paradigms sought to invert perceptions, making death seem better than life itself. This is the first full-length study of this phenomenon. It differs from previous histories of death in two significant ways: in its methodology, which seeks to interweave social history and intellectual/cultural history; and in its geographical and cultural setting (previous studies have focused on France, Italy, and England). As a history of mentalites focused on a subject of universal significance, From Madrid to Purgatory transcends its 'Spanishness' and its time period while being wholly attentive to them.
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