From the Cradle to the Grave: The Changing of Transitional Rituals in the Multi-Confessional Milieu of a Bohemian Town in the Seventeenth Century

Josef Kadeř&#225;bek

From the Cradle to the Grave: The Changing of Transitional Rituals in the Multi-Confessional Milieu of a Bohemian Town in the Seventeenth Century
From the Cradle to the Grave: The Changing of Transitional Rituals in the Multi-Confessional Milieu of a Bohemian Town in the Seventeenth Century

Author(s): Josef Kadeřábek
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 17th Century
Published by: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Keywords: Urban history; Transitional rituals; Counter-Reformation; Seventeenth century;

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on urban and church archival sources such as handbooks, legal texts and birth registers, this study deals with changes in transitional rituals in the multi-denominational town of Slaný in Bohemia in the years 1600–1640. It focuses on both religious and civil rituals and shows how they changed in the course of the Counter-Reformation.

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Journal: The City and History (Mesto a dejiny until 2019)

Issue Year: 11/2022
Issue No: 1
Page Range: 59-69
Page Count: 11
Language: English

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From the Cradle to the Grave: The Changing of Transitional Rituals in the Multi-Confessional Milieu of a Bohemian Town in the Seventeenth Century
From the Cradle to the Grave: The Changing of Transitional Rituals in the Multi-Confessional Milieu of a Bohemian Town in the Seventeenth Century