This 2002 book is an exploration in social history, showing how the practices surrounding death can illumine urban culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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.
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