Beliefs and the dead in Reformation England

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Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Presence of the Dead: Memory and Obligation Before the Reformation; Lands of the dead; Encounters with the dead; Idioms of memory; The limits of remembrance; The weight of the dead; 2: Debates Over the Dead: Purgatory and Polemic in Henrician England; Opening Salvos: fish, frith, and more; The deconstruction of a doctrine; Purgatory, papacy, and pardons; Formularies and reform; The dissolution and the dead; 3: 'Rage Against the Dead': Reform, Counter-reform, and the Death of Purgatory Reception, reactions, and responseIn place of purgatory; Purgatory restored?; 4: The Regulation of the Dead: Ritual and Reform in the English Church, c.1560-1630; The hunting of purgatory to death; Ringing against the changes; The perishing of purgatory?; Charity and the origins of error; Liturgical rememberance; Preaching over the dead; Deathly rationing: bells and doles; Tombs: defacers and defenders; Praying for the dead; 5: The Estate of the Dead: The Afterlife in the Protestant Imagination; The two places; The population of heaven; Death, popery, and the ancestors The amnesia of the deadMeeting again: society in heaven; Sleep and resurrection; 6: The Disorderly Dead: Ghosts and their Meanings in Reformation England; Ghosts, scripture, and polemic; Spectres of Catholicism; Protestants and the persistence of ghosts; Exemplary spirits; Evolutions of belief; 7: Remembering the Dead: Commemoration and Memory in Protestant Culture; The meanings of memory; The dead speaking; The status of the departed; Living with the dead; Remembering and forgetting; Conclusion; Bibliography of Printed Primary sources; Index