9780521460187-0521460182-From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)

From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)

ISBN-13: 9780521460187
ISBN-10: 0521460182
Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 588 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521460187
ISBN-10: 0521460182
Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 588 pages

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From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) (ISBN-13: 9780521460187 and ISBN-10: 0521460182), written by authors Carlos M. N. Eire, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1995. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (European History, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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