Rest in peace. Managing death and burial during the Dutch Revolt KU Leuven
Burials were explosive matters in the sixteenth-century conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Catholics insisted on the sacrament of the Last Anointing, a funeral mass and a burial in sacred ground, while Protestants rejected this ‘ritual industry’, and defended a sober ars moriendi and a interment in designated though not sacred cemeteries. For the Holy Roman Empire, the British Isles and France, it has been extensively documented how ...