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The two books represent one of the high points of English prose during the period of the early Stuarts.

According to historian Nancy Lee Beaty ( 1970, The Craft of Dying: A Study in the Literary Tradition of the Ars Moriendi in England ), Holy Dying was the " artistic climax " of a consolatory death literature tradition that had begun with Ars moriendi in the 15th century.

Other works in this tradition include The Waye of Dying Well and The Sick Mannes Salve.