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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 SixteenthCentury Spain - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521529426
ISBN-10: 0521529425
Publication Date: 7/25/2002
Pages: 587
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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