>I am a non-specialist carrying out biographical research in the late 16th
>Century. Could anyone help me by suggesting where I might find information
>about Catholic ceremonies that might have been performed to mark the death of
>a leading townsman of Duisberg, Germany, in the last decade of the 16th
>Century?
>
>Andrew Taylor
You might check the book by my colleague, Craig Koslofsky, called The
Reformation of the Dead (NY: St. Martin's, 1999). He focusses on how
protestants reformed catholic rites for the dead in this period, but he
includes material that would probably help you.
Megan
Megan McLaughlin
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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