From Madrid to purgatory
the art and craft of dyingin sixteenth-century Spain
Catholic church, history
Catholicism
Religious aspects of Death
Death, religious aspects
Eschatology
Attitude to Death
Catholic church, doctrines
Religious life and customs
History of doctrines
Death
Doctrines
Catholic Church
Religious aspects
History
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 sixteenth-century Madrid testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of…
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