The Theatre of Death
This book represents the first detailed study into English royal funeral ceremonies of the period, building on earlier scholarship dealing with the French royal funeral and with the social history of death and burial in early modern England. Funeral rituals are approached as performances, and placed in their political, religious and broader cultural contexts, showing them to be a microcosm of cultural change. The impact of the Reformation, with its strong iconophobic strain, on a ritual...
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English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsThe English Succession 1485-1625The French Succession 1515-1610The Theatre of Death: An Introduction11The Heraldic Funeral in Renaissance England152Funeral Ritual and the Reformation373The Renaissance Royal Funeral and Succession Rituals: England and France614The 1587 Funerals of Mary Queen of Scots675The Royal Funeral of Elizabeth I (1603)876Religion and Culture under the Early Stuarts1187Playing with Death: The Exploitation and Subversion of Funeral Ritual (1603-1625)1298The Funeral of Prince Henry Stuart (1612)1489The Funeral of Anne of Denmark (1619)16610The Funeral of King James (1625)175Epilogue204App. IThe Funeral Procession of Elizabeth I (1603)210App. IIThe Funeral Rites of Charles IX of France (1574)214Bibliography221Index243
