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DEATH, RELIGION, AND THE FAMILY IN ENGLAND, 1480-1750
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| By: |
Ralph A. Houlbrooke |
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Hardback |
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£237.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198217617 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198217619 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 October, 1998 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Social History |
| Pages: |
450 |
| Description: |
In past centuries, human responses to death were largely shaped by religious beliefs. Ralph Houlbrooke shows how the religious upheavals of the early modern period brought dramatic changes to this response, affecting the last rites, funerals, and ways of remembering the dead. He examines the interaction between religious innovation and the continuing need for reassurance and consolation on the part of the dying and the bereaved. |
| Synopsis: |
The interest and importance of the social history of death have been increasingly recognized during the last thirty years. Ralph Houlbrooke examines the effects of religious change on the English 'way of death' between 1480 and 1750. He discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject, such as the death-bed, will making, and the last rites. He also examines the rich variety of commemorative media and practices and is the first to describe the development of the English funeral sermon between the late Middle Ages and the eighteenth century. Dr Houlbrooke shows how the need of the living to remember the dead remained important throughout the later medieval and early modern periods, even though its justification and means of expression changed. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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