Title Beliefs and the dead in Reformation England / Peter Marshall

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) Contents Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Presence of the Dead: Memory and Obligation Before the Reformation; Lands of the dead; Encounters with the dead; Idioms of memory; The limits of remembrance; The weight of the dead; 2: Debates Over the Dead: Purgatory and Polemic in Henrician England; Opening Salvos: fish, frith, and more; The deconstruction of a doctrine; Purgatory, papacy, and pardons; Formularies and reform; The dissolution and the dead; 3: 'Rage Against the Dead': Reform, Counter-reform, and the Death of Purgatory Reception, reactions, and responseIn place of purgatory; Purgatory restored?; 4: The Regulation of the Dead: Ritual and Reform in the English Church, c.1560-1630; The hunting of purgatory to death; Ringing against the changes; The perishing of purgatory?; Charity and the origins of error; Liturgical rememberance; Preaching over the dead; Deathly rationing: bells and doles; Tombs: defacers and defenders; Praying for the dead; 5: The Estate of the Dead: The Afterlife in the Protestant Imagination; The two places; The population of heaven; Death, popery, and the ancestors The amnesia of the deadMeeting again: society in heaven; Sleep and resurrection; 6: The Disorderly Dead: Ghosts and their Meanings in Reformation England; Ghosts, scripture, and polemic; Spectres of Catholicism; Protestants and the persistence of ghosts; Exemplary spirits; Evolutions of belief; 7: Remembering the Dead: Commemoration and Memory in Protestant Culture; The meanings of memory; The dead speaking; The status of the departed; Living with the dead; Remembering and forgetting; Conclusion; Bibliography of Printed Primary sources; Index Summary This text examines conflicting 16th-century attitudes to the doctrine of purgatory, as well as the religious culture surrounding them which underscored the fabric of society. It charts the Protestant authorities' attempts to stamp out the rituals and provide replacements Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index Notes Print version record Subject Dead -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Purgatory -- History of doctrines. Reformation -- England. Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Dead -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Purgatory -- History of doctrines Reformation SUBJECT England -- Religious life and customs England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267 Subject England Genre/Form Church history Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191542916 0191542911 1280445491 9781280445491 9780198207733 0198207735

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