Through an analysis of a large corpus of sixteenth-century wills and testaments, this article explores Englishwomen’s end-of-life religious patronage a site for the production of family identity and memory, and as a mechanism by which family and faith were woven together. It considers both the influence of the family on women’s post-mortem piety, and their role as executrices for their husbands. In doing so, it argues that women were integral to producing the commemorative practices that ensured their families’ immortality, and that these practices were in turn an important means by which religious practice and belief were renegotiated and refigured during the early English Reformation.

通过对十六世纪的大量遗嘱和遗嘱进行分析，本文探索了英国妇女临终宗教的庇护所，该处是产生家庭身份和记忆的场所，也是将家庭和信仰编织在一起的一种机制。它既考虑了家庭对妇女事后虔诚的影响，也考虑了她们作为丈夫的执行官的角色。在这样做的过程中，它认为妇女对于确保家庭永生的纪念活动是不可或缺的，而这些活动反过来又是在早期的英国宗教改革中重新协商和重新制定宗教活动和信仰的重要手段。