{"product_id":"the-place-of-the-dead-death-and-remembrance-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-europe-hardback-9780521642569","title":"The Place of the Dead; Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardback) 9780521642569","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Place of the Dead\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDeath and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book provides a comprehensive account of attitudes towards the dead and their 'placing'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBruce Gordon (Edited by), Peter Marshall (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521642569, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 February 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages, 15 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'These are microstudies of a very high standard, with thorough bibliographies, which provide a refreshing examination of topics that are important for the history of theology.' Expository Times\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume of essays provides a 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 insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall\u003cbr\u003e 2. The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death Samuel K. Cohn Jr\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Longing to be prayed for': death and commemoration in an English parish in the later Middle Ages Clive Burgess\u003cbr\u003e 4. Spirits seeking bodies: death, posession and communal memory in the Middle Ages Nancy Caciola\u003cbr\u003e 5. Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels: apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss Reformation Bruce Gordon\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'The map of God's word': geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England Peter Marshall\u003cbr\u003e 7. Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France Penny Roberts\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Defyle not Christ's kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland Andrew Spicer\u003cbr\u003e 9. Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris Vanessa Harding\u003cbr\u003e 10. Women, memory and will-making in Elizabethan England J. S. W. Helt\u003cbr\u003e 11. Death, prophecy and judgement in Transylvania Graeme Murdock\u003cbr\u003e 12. Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenth-century France Larissa Juliet Taylor\u003cbr\u003e 13. The worst death becomes a good death: the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderón James M. Boyden\u003cbr\u003e 14. Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England Will Coster\u003cbr\u003e 15. The afterlives of monstrous infants in Reformation Germany Philip M. Soergel\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129359782168,"sku":"9780521642569","price":91.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521642569i.jpg?v=1691666727","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-place-of-the-dead-death-and-remembrance-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-europe-hardback-9780521642569","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}