Death Family Eng Ossh P

The author examines the effects of religious change on the English way of death between 1480 and 1750. He discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject ... » 

The author examines the effects of religious change on the English way of death between 1480 and 1750. He discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject such as the death-bed, will-making and the last rites, and describes the development of the English funeral sermon after the Middle Ages. «