The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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...
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This book provides a comprehensive account of attitudes towards the dead and their 'placing'.
List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsPreface1Introduction: placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe12The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death173'Longing to be prayed for': death and commemoration in an English parish in the later Middle Ages444Spirits seeking bodies: death, possession and communal memory in the Middle Ages665Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels: apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss Reformation876'The map of God's word': geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England1107Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France1318'Defyle not Christ's kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland1499Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris17010Women, memory and will-making in Elizabethan England18811Death, prophecy and judgement in Transylvania20612Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenth-century France22413The worst death becomes a good death: the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderon24014Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England26615The afterlives of monstrous infants in Reformation Germany288Index310
