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This book focuses on the illnesses, last hours of life and death of four Habsburg rulers - Ferdinand I and his sons Maximilian II, Karl von Steiermark and Ferdinand von Tirol - as well as the funeral ceremonies organized for them in the second half of the 16th century. Regardless of the different degrees of rule of the deceased, the funerals that took place in Innsbruck, Prague, Graz and Vienna were essentially the same with regard to the symbols used for personal and dynastic representations. The public laying out of the mortal remains, the funeral conduit and the funeral mass can be regarded as binding steps in a stereotypical ritual of the last farewell to the Habsburg rulers who left the earthly world as emperors, kings and archdukes of Austria. The continuity of faith, rule and power of the deceased was passed on to his next male descendants in the course of the funeral ceremony, who took their places in the funeral conduit immediately behind the bier and during the funeral mass stood in close proximity to the coffin under the Castrum Doloris.

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