1. Preliminaries -- 2. Individuals -- 3. The Prince -- 4. Death and the Afterlife. Excursus: Some Recent Work on the History of Death -- 5. Representations and Reality -- Appendix: The Character and Contents of Key Manuscripts
Summary
Based on unpublished sermons in memory of kings and princes, this book examines the relationship between kingship and death, in a period when a genuinely secular political consciousness existed alongside other-worldly priorities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and indexes