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