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

Cressy, David

 
9780198201687: Birth, Marriage & Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

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A vivid picture of the classic rites of passage 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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