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

ISBN-13: 9780521529426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 588 str.

Carlos Eire; John Elliott; Olwen Hufton

Opis

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.