The Place of the Dead
Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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1. Introduction: placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall
2. The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death Samuel K. Cohn Jr
3. 'Longing to be prayed for': death and commemoration in an English parish in the later Middle Ages Clive Burgess
4. Spirits seeking bodies: death, posession and communal memory in the Middle Ages Nancy Caciola
5. Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels: apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss Reformation Bruce Gordon
6. 'The map of God's word': geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England Peter Marshall
7. Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France Penny Roberts
8. 'Defyle not Christ's kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland Andrew Spicer
9. Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris Vanessa Harding
10. Women, memory and will-making in Elizabethan England J. S. W. Helt
11. Death, prophecy and judgement in Transylvania Graeme Murdock
12. Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenth-century France Larissa Juliet Taylor
13. The worst death becomes a good death: the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderón James M. Boyden
14. Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England Will Coster
15. The afterlives of monstrous infants in Reformation Germany Philip M. Soergel
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