From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
, by Carlos M. N. EireNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521529426 | 0521529425
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/25/2002
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 Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.