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Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of death, burials and commemoration. One particularly fruitful avenue of research is not to focus on death in general, but the moment of death specifically. This volume investigates this transitionary moment between life and death. In many cases, this was a death on a deathbed, but it also included the scaffold, battlefield, or death in the streets.
Contributors: Friedrich J. Becher, Benedikt Brunner, Isabel Casteels, Martin Christ, Louise Deschryver, Irene Dingel, Michaël Green, Vanessa Harding, Sigrun Haude, Vera Henkelmann, Imke Lichterfeld, Erik Seeman, Elizabeth Tingle, and Hillard von Thiessen.
Contributors: Friedrich J. Becher, Benedikt Brunner, Isabel Casteels, Martin Christ, Louise Deschryver, Irene Dingel, Michaël Green, Vanessa Harding, Sigrun Haude, Vera Henkelmann, Imke Lichterfeld, Erik Seeman, Elizabeth Tingle, and Hillard von Thiessen.
Price: $155.00
Pages: 330
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Intersections
Publication Date:
05 June 2024
ISBN: 9789004517738
Format: Hardcover
Benedikt Brunner is a Research Associate at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz. He received his PhD from the University of Münster in 2017 with a conceptual history of the term “Volkskirche” in German Protestantism. Since then, he worked on several aspects of early modern Protestantism in Europe and beyond. He is currently finishing a book about coping practices among Protestants in the cities of Nuremberg, Basel, London and Boston.
Martin Christ is a Junior Fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations,” based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has worked on religious coexistence in early modern central Europe, conversions to Lutheranism, and urban history. He is currently working on a project about death and burials in Munich and London, c. 1550–1870. He is the author of Biographies of a Reformation (Oxford, 2021).
Martin Christ is a Junior Fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations,” based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has worked on religious coexistence in early modern central Europe, conversions to Lutheranism, and urban history. He is currently working on a project about death and burials in Munich and London, c. 1550–1870. He is the author of Biographies of a Reformation (Oxford, 2021).