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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 » testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.« less