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Dealing with the Early Modern Dead

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Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. By MarshallPeter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+344. $74.00.

The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670. By HardingVanessa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi+343. $65.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Lee Beier
Affiliation:
Illinois State University

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References

1 Ariès, P., L’homme devant la mort (Paris, 1977)Google Scholar; translated as The Hour of Our Death and published in London, 1983.

2 Hindle, S., “Prayers for the Dying in Early Modern England,” Journal of British Studies 39, no. 1 (January 2000): 99105CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also the volume edited by Gordon, B. and Marshall, P., The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000)Google Scholar; Kolofsky, C. M., The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450–1700 (Basingstoke, 2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For earlier collections see Houlbrooke, Ralph A., ed., Death, Ritual and Bereavement (London, 1989)Google Scholar; Whaley, J., ed., Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death (London, 1981)Google Scholar.

3 See also Slack, Paul, “Metropolitan Government in Crisis: The Response to the Plague,” in The Making of the Metropolis: London, 1500–1700, ed. Beier, A. L. and Finlay, Roger A. (London, 1986), p. 62Google Scholar.

4 Duffy, E., The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580 (New Haven, Conn., 1992), chaps. 9–10Google Scholar.