Jrdische Pilgrimschafft und Himmlische Burgerschafft

The Early Modern funeral sermons are testimonials to the cultural impact of faith and religiosity. The author provides an analysis of how seventeenth-century Lutheran and Catholic funeral preaching deals with sorrow and consolation. It looks at these aspects as interconfessional phenomena in the multimedia context of the sermons, discussing how preachers articulate Christian doctrine and religious piety in the face of human finitude and mortality. Additional sources such as epicedia, epitaphs, dogmatic writing, and contemporary texts of meditation, together with selected examples from Early Modern sacred poetry and printed graphics supplement the study.