Overview

Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of death, burials and commemoration. One particularly fruitful avenue of research is not to focus on death in general, but the moment of death specifically. This volume investigates this transitionary moment between life and death.

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Author:   Benedikt Brunner ,  Martin Christ
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   89
Weight:   0.791kg
ISBN:  

9789004517738

ISBN 10:   9004517731
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   05 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: the Moment(s) of Death in Early Modern Europe  Benedikt Brunner and Martin Christ Part 1: Approaching the Last Moments 2 Ambiguity and Authenticity: the ‘Good Death’ on the Scaffold  Hillard von Thiessen 3 Privacy in Death? Early Modern French Accounts of Death and Huguenots’ Last Hours  Michaël Green 4 Urbanity around the Deathbed: Considerations from Early Modern London  Martin Christ Part 2: Ideal Deathbeds 5 Deathbed Scenes in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Cross-Cultural Perspectives  Erik R. Seeman 6 Confessing in the Contexts of Dying and Narratives of Death  Irene Dingel 7 The Catholic Reformation and the Dying: Confraternities and Preparations for Death in France 1550–1700  Elizabeth Tingle 8 Dying in Communities: the Ideal Death between Individual and Communal Requirements in Early Modern Protestantism  Benedikt Brunner Part 3: Objects and the Moments of Death 9 Candles of Death and the Death of the Virgin Mary as a Model of the Ideal Death on the Threshold of the Early Modern Era  Vera Henkelmann 10 Contested Kingship – Controversial Coronation: York’s Paper Crown  Imke Lichterfeld 11 Miseraciones eius super omnia opera eius: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s ‘Der Sterbende’ on the Brink of Reformation?  Friedrich J. Becher Part 4: Violence and Diseases 12 The Moment of Death during the Thirty Years’ War  Sigrun Haude 13 Death Disrupted: Heresy Executions and Spectators in the Low Countries, 1550–1566  Isabel Casteels 14 Deaths in Hospitals and Care Institutions in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century London  Vanessa Harding 15 Fleeing the Deathbed: Sensory Anxieties and the Persecution of Non-Catholic Dying Practices in Antwerp, 1560s–1570s  Louise Deschryver Index Nominum

Reviews

“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.

Author Information

Benedikt Brunner is a Research Associate at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz. He received his PhD from the University of Münster in 2017 with a conceptual history of the term “Volkskirche” in German Protestantism. Since then, he worked on several aspects of early modern Protestantism in Europe and beyond. He is currently finishing a book about coping practices among Protestants in the cities of Nuremberg, Basel, London and Boston. Martin Christ is a Junior Fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations,” based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has worked on religious coexistence in early modern central Europe, conversions to Lutheranism, and urban history. He is currently working on a project about death and burials in Munich and London, c. 1550–1870. He is the author of Biographies of a Reformation (Oxford, 2021).

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