Preparing for death, remembering the dead / Tarald Rasmussen, Jon Øygarden Flæten (eds.).

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2015]

377 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- Preparing for death. From the Late Medieval ars moriendi to the Lutheran funeral sermon / Volker Leppin -- After purgatory: death and remembrance in the Reformation World / Peter Marshall -- Ruth, Judith, Artemisia - Models for the early modern widow / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- A change in forms and the migration of bodies in Rome - from the Cardinal's Tomb to the Cenotaph / Philipp Zitzlsperger -- Ars moriendi in early modern Calvinsim / Herman J. Selderhuis -- Spacing death - facing death: conceptualizing the encounter with death during the early modern period / Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen -- Reforming Late Medieval ars moriendi: changes and compromises in early Reformation manuals for use at the deathbed / Claudia Resch -- Preachers as Paul: learning and exemplarity in Lutheran funeral sermons. A motif - perspective on faith and works in face of death / Sivert Angel -- Commemoratoin and consolation: images in Lutheran Saxony, c.1550-1700 / Bridget Heal -- Funeral sermons and Lutheran social practices. An example from 16th-century Denmark-Norway / Arne Bugge Amundsen -- Remembering death in Denmark-Norway during the period of Lutheran orthodoxy / Kristin B. Aavitsland -- How to comfort a dying family member? The practice of an early modern Hungarian Calvinist. A case study / Zsombor Tóth -- "Let's kick the devil in his nose". The introduction of a Lutheran art of dying in the 16th-century Denmark-Norway / Eivor Andersen Oftestad -- Preparation for death in sixteenth-century Zurich: Heinrich Bullinger and Otto Werdmüller / Luca Baschera -- Melanchthon and Calvin on confession, contrition, and penitence / Herman A. Speelman -- Death and the Lutheran idea of becoming a heavenly musician / Konrad Küster -- No funeral sermons: Dutch or Calvinistic prohibition? / Leon van den Broeke.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-377).