Introduction: Dying, death, burial and commemoration in Reformation Europe, Elizabeth Tingle and Jonathan Willis; The pursuit of power: death, dying and the quest for social control in the Palatinate 1547-1610, Ruth Atherton; ‘At the hour of our death’: praying for the dying in post-Reformation England, Hannah Cleugh; Death, music and the appropriateness of emotions in Reformation England: humanist portrayals of burial and mourning in Musica Rhetorica, Hyun-Ah Kim; Catholic burial and commemoration in early 17th century Lancashire, † Linda O’Halloran and Andrew Spicer; Fraternal commemoration and the London Company of Drapers c.1440-c.1600, Laura Branch; Faith and fury: funerary monuments in Reformation France, Rebecca Constabel; From fire to iron: martyrs and massacre victims in Genevan martyrology, Jameson Tucker; Ghost stories: Noel de Taillepied’s Psichologie ou apparition des esprits (1587) and the rehabilitation of Purgatory in late 16th-century France, Elizabeth Tingle; The prodigious garment: a relic becomes real in early modern Spain, Maria Tausiet; Index.