From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Carlos Eire

From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Carlos Eire

588 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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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-Reforma...

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