The Place of the Dead

Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: Bruce Gordon (Editor), Peter Marshall (Editor)

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Hardcover | 2 October 2000

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This volume of essays represents the first comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It argues that to contemporaries the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms, was a vitally important exercise, and one which often involved conflict and complex negotiation. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife, and ghosts. Individually the essays help to illuminate several current historiographical concerns: the significance of the Black Death, the impact of the protestant and catholic Reformations, and interactions between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. Collectively, by exploring the social and cultural meanings of attitudes towards the dead, they provide genuinely original insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe	p. 1
The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death	p. 17
'Longing to be prayed for': death and commemoration in an English parish in the later Middle Ages	p. 44
Spirits seeking bodies: death, possession and communal memory in the Middle Ages	p. 66
Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels: apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss Reformation	p. 87
'The map of God's word': geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England	p. 110
Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France	p. 131
'Defyle not Christ's kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland	p. 149
Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris	p. 170
Women, memory and will-making in Elizabethan England	p. 188
Death, prophecy and judgment in Transylvania	p. 206
Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenth-century France	p. 224
The worst death becomes a good death: the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderon	p. 240
Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England	p. 266
The afterlives of monstrous infants in Reformation Germany	p. 288
Index	p. 310
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