Birth, Marriage, And Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England - Couverture souple

Cressy, David

 
9780198207887: Birth, Marriage, And Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198207883 ISBN 13 : 9780198207887
Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1999

Synopsis

From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration. Each of the major rituals was potentially an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they also set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not everybody could pass. In practice, ritual performance revealed frictions and fractures that everyday local discourse attempted to hide or to heal. Using fascinating first-hand evidence, David Cressy shows how the making and remaking of ritual formed part of a continuing debate, sometimes strained and occasionally acrimonious, which exposed the raw nerves of society in the midst of great historical events. In doing so, he vividly brings to life the common experiences of living and dying in Tudor and Stuart England.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Cressy is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. His recent books include Religion and Society in Early Modern England and Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198207883
ISBN 13 
9780198207887
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
660
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780198201687: Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0198201680 ISBN 13 :  9780198201687
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1997
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