Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England - Tapa dura

Cressy, David

 
9780198201687: Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
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ISBN 10: 0198201680 ISBN 13: 9780198201687
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 1997

Sinopsis

From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life-cycle 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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David Cressy is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach.

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From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life-cycle 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.

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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0198201680
ISBN 13 
9780198201687
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Número de páginas
658
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9780198207887: Birth, Marriage, And Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

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ISBN 10:  0198207883 ISBN 13:  9780198207887
Editorial: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1999
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