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The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, C.1450-1700

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The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, C.1450-1700 - Koslofsky, C
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Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. The Protestant Reformation transformed the funeral more profoundly than any other ritual of the traditional church. Luther's doctrine of salvation 'by faith alone' made the foundation of the traditional funeral, intercession for the dead in Purgatory, obsolete. By drawing on anthropological interpretations of death ritual, this study explores the changing relationships between the body, the soul, the living ...

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The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, C.1450-1700 2000, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780312229108

2000 edition

Hardcover

The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, c.1450-1700 1999, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333666852

Hardcover