Speaking with the Dead in Early America /
In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased-most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abo...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Early American Studies
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