List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: placing the dead in late medieval and early modern Europe Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall; 2. The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death Samuel K. Cohn Jr; 3. 'Longing to be prayed for': death and commemoration in an English parish in the later Middle Ages Clive Burgess; 4. Spirits seeking bodies: death, posession and communal memory in the Middle Ages Nancy Caciola; 5. Malevolent ghosts and ministering angels: apparitions and pastoral care in the Swiss Reformation Bruce Gordon; 6. 'The map of God's word': geographies of the afterlife in Tudor and early Stuart England Peter Marshall; 7. Contesting sacred space: burial disputes in sixteenth-century France Penny Roberts; 8. 'Defyle not Christ's kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland Andrew Spicer; 9. Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris Vanessa Harding; 10. Women, memory and will-making in Elizabethan England J. S. W. Helt; 11. Death, prophecy and judgement in Transylvania Graeme Murdock; 12. Funeral sermons and orations as religious propaganda in sixteenth-century France Larissa Juliet Taylor; 13. The worst death becomes a good death: the passion of Don Rodrigo Calderón James M. Boyden; 14. Tokens of innocence: infant baptism, death and burial in early modern England Will Coster; 15. The afterlives of monstrous infants in Reformation Germany Philip M. Soergel; Index.