The Arte de bien morir : changes in the Church's official discourses from fifteenth century Spain to eighteenth century Mexico

The Ars moriendi manuals were instrumental in the late medieval Church's discourses of confession and penance. This genre, which developed as a reaction to the Black Death and other social and natural disasters of the fourteenth century, produced many vernacular versions in Europe which vari...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bastante, Pamela
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30714