Vanessa Harding

The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500 1670

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2002 book is an exploration in social history, showing how the practices surrounding death can illumine urban culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780521811262
• ISBN-10: 0521811260
• Artikelnr.: 29338548

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Harding is Senior Lecturer in London History at Birkbeck, London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on spelling, sums of money, etc.
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. London and Paris, the setting of life and death
3. 'Lamentable pinfoulds of the deaths of men': parish churchyards and churchyard burial
4. Innocents and outcasts: civic and non-parochial churchyards
5. 'Making churches charnel houses': the constraints of church burial
6. 'A fine and private place': burial chapels, vaults and tombs
7. 'Meet and convenient for my estate and degree': funeral conventions and choices
8. 'The whole profit of the funeralls': commercialisation and consumption
9. 'The last love and ceremony': funerals, community and civic identity
10. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.