A monument of mortalitie
1983·163 pages
A 17th-century funeral sermon and tribute to Anna Bill by Martin Day, reflecting on mortality and modesty.
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A 17th-century funeral sermon and tribute to Anna Bill by Martin Day, reflecting on mortality and modesty.
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The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further readi...
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