Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

by Peter Marshall

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no 'middle place' of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth. This was no remote theological proposition, but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199273723
• ISBN13: 9780199273720
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"