Preparing for death, remembering the dead / / Tarald Rasmussen, Jon Oygarden Flaeten, editors.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies ; Volume 22
• TeilnehmendeR: Rasmussen, Tarald,; Flaeten, Jon Oygarden,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: German
• Series: Refo500 academic studies ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Notes: "With 78 figures."

Death and dying were not in the main focus of the denominational conflicts of the 16th century. However, pious literature covered these topics again and again, not only before the Reformation, but after it as well. Here, certain denominational differences are clearly visible. Partly, these differences consist in the use of genres: For example, funeral sermons are an often used genre among Lutherans, while they are much rarer in the Reformed tradition. Similar differences can be observed concerning epitaphs. In Roman Catholic areas, funeral sermons and epitaphs are common in the 16th century, t

Table of Contents

Cover; Tilte Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; Volker Leppin: Preparing for Death. From the Late Medieval ars moriendi to the Lutheran Funeral Sermon; Peter Marshall: After Purgatory : Death and Remembrance in the Reformation World; Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly: Ruth, Judith, Artemisia - Models for the Early Modern Widow; Philipp Zitzlsperger: A Change in Forms and the Migration of Bodies in Rome - from the Cardinal's Tomb to the Cenotaph; Herman J. Selderhuis: Ars Moriendi in Early Modern Calvinism

Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen: Spacing Death - Facing Death: Conceptualizing the Encounter With Death During the Early Modern PeriodClaudia Resch: Reforming Late Medieval ars moriendi: Changes and Compromises in Early Reformation Manuals for Use at the Deathbed; Sivert Angel: Preachers as Paul: Learning and Exemplarity in Lutheran Funeral Sermons. A Motif - Perspective on Faith and Works in Face of Death; Bridget Heal: Commemoration and Consolation: Images in Lutheran Saxony, c.1550- 1700

Arne Bugge Amundsen: Funeral Sermons and Lutheran Social Practices. An Example from 16th-century Denmark-NorwayKristin B. Aavitsland: Remembering Death in Denmark-Norway during the Period of Lutheran Orthodoxy; Zsombor Tóth: How to Comfort a Dying Family Member? The Practice of an Early Modern Hungarian Calvinist. A case study; Eivor Andersen Oftestad: "Let's Kick the Devil in His Nose". The Introduction of a Lutheran Art of Dying in 16th-century Denmark-Norway; Luca Baschera: Preparation for Death in Sixteenth-Century Zurich: Heinrich Bullinger and Otto Werdmüller

Herman A. Speelman: Melanchthon and Calvin on Confession, Contrition, and PenitenceKonrad Küster: Death and the Lutheran Idea of Becoming a Heavenly Musician; Leon van den Broeke: No Funeral Sermons: Dutch or Calvinistic Prohibition?