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

The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, C.1450-1700 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312229108)

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

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 by Koslofsky, C.

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

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Format: Hardcover
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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 and the dead in the daily life of early modern Germany.

Author: C. Koslofsky
ISBN-10: 0312229100
ISBN-13: 9780312229108
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2000
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.71w x 0.82d
By C. Koslofsky
By C. Koslofsky
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Craig M. Koslofsky is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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