Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750

Zusatztext There are points where the historian can go no further, and we must be grateful to Ralph Houlbrooke for taking us so far. His is the kind of acute and measured scholarship which shows what can be examined and imagined in the past -- and what cannot. Klappentext Both the interest and importance of the social history of death have been increasingly recognized during the last thirty years. Here! Houlbrooke examines the impact 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 last rites. He also studies the wide 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 18th century. 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 were altered. Zusammenfassung This book shows how the religious upheavals of the early modern period brought changes in responding to death, affecting the last rites, funerals, and ways of remembering the dead. It examines the interaction between religious innovation and the continuing need for reassurance and consolation on the part of the dying and the bereaved.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Houlbrooke, Ralph A. Houlbrooke
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1998
• EAN: 9780198217619
• ISBN: 978-0-19-821761-9
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social History; Oxford Studies in Social Histo; Oxford Studies in Social History; Oxford Studies in Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, RELIGION / Devotional, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion: general, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, C 1700 To C 1800