(i) paula marie rieder wrote:
> The custom of standing in to be purified for a woman who had died
> was not approved by the authorities, though it was still done.
Paula,
Thanks for your reply. I'm very pleased indeed to see this, since I had
thought my Guernsey reference of 1593 to be an aberration. Do you have
some references, please, concerning the French occurrences?
(ii) As the discussion widens, may I refer those interested to Andrew
Spicer's "'Rest of their Bones': fear of death and Reformed burial
practices", in W.G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds), _Fear in Early Modern
Society_ (Manchester, 1997)?
On churching, see A. Wilson, "The Ceremony of Childbirth and its
interpretation", in V. Fildes (ed.), _Women as Mothers in Pre-industrial
England: essays in memory of Dorothy McLaren_ (London, 1990), and D.
Cressy, _Birth, Marriage and Death: ritual, religion, and the life-cycle
in Tudor and Stuart England_ (Oxford, 1997).
Darryl
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