Sarah Tarlow

Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521761543
• ISBN-10: 0521761549
• Artikelnr.: 31387812

Autorenporträt

Sarah Tarlow is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality (1999) and The Archaeology of Improvement (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain (1999) and Thinking through the Body (2002). She has published widely on archaeological theory, later historical archaeology, and the interdisciplinary study of death.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Religious belief
3. Scientific belief
4. Social belief
5. Folk belief
6. Conclusions.