Author: HOULBROOKE, RALPH.
Title: Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480-1750.
Description: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 0198217617. Oxford Studies in Social History series. "Examines the effects of religious change on the English 'way of death' between 1480 and 1750..(Houlbrooke) 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 practics and is the first to describe the development of the English funeral sermon between the late Middle Ages and the eighteenth century." Pp.xiv/435, owner's label to front free endpaper. Black cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

Keywords: Houlbrooke Death Religion Family England Middle Ages Hereafter Preparation Last Will Testament Last Rites Grief Mourning Funerals Sermons Burial Commemoration History Ritual Dead 49820 History: : British


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