From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

by Carlos M.N. Eire

Book Overview

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 testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the good deaths of King Philip II and Saint...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521529425
• ISBN13: 9780521529426
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"