Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: the Moment(s) of Death in Early Modern Europe --   Benedikt Brunner and Martin Christ -- Part 1: Approaching the Last Moments -- 2 Ambiguity and Authenticity: the ‘Good Death’ on the Scaffold --   Hillard von Thiessen -- 3 Privacy in Death? Early Modern French Accounts of Death and Huguenots’ Last Hours --   Michaël Green -- 4 Urbanity around the Deathbed: Considerations from Early Modern London --   Martin Christ -- Part 2: Ideal Deathbeds -- 5 Deathbed Scenes in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Cross-Cultural Perspectives --   Erik R. Seeman -- 6 Confessing in the Contexts of Dying and Narratives of Death --   Irene Dingel -- 7 The Catholic Reformation and the Dying: Confraternities and Preparations for Death in France 1550–1700 --   Elizabeth Tingle -- 8 Dying in Communities: the Ideal Death between Individual and Communal Requirements in Early Modern Protestantism --   Benedikt Brunner -- Part 3: Objects and the Moments of Death -- 9 Candles of Death and the Death of the Virgin Mary as a Model of the Ideal Death on the Threshold of the Early Modern Era --   Vera Henkelmann -- 10 Contested Kingship – Controversial Coronation: York’s Paper Crown --   Imke Lichterfeld -- 11 Miseraciones eius super omnia opera eius : Lucas Cranach the Elder’s ‘Der Sterbende’ on the Brink of Reformation? --   Friedrich J. Becher -- Part 4: Violence and Diseases -- 12 The Moment of Death during the Thirty Years’ War --   Sigrun Haude -- 13 Death Disrupted: Heresy Executions and Spectators in the Low Countries, 1550–1566 --   Isabel Casteels -- 14 Deaths in Hospitals and Care Institutions in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century London --   Vanessa Harding -- 15 Fleeing the Deathbed: Sensory Anxieties and the Persecution of Non-Catholic Dying Practices in Antwerp, 1560s–1570s --   Louise Deschryver -- Index Nominum.

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 include: 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

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