Julie Rugg

Churchyard and cemetery (eBook, ePUB)

Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores, for the first time, the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts and discloses the ways in which religious politics framed burial management. It presents an alternative history of burial which questions notions of tradition and modernity, and challenges long-standing assumptions about changing attitudes towards mortality in England.

This study diverges from the long-standing tendency to regard the churchyard as inherently 'traditional' and the cemetery as essentially 'modern'. Since 1850, both types of site have been subject to the influence of new expectations that burial space would guarantee family burial and the opportunity for formal commemoration. Although the population in central North Yorkshire declined, demand for burial space rose, meaning that many dozens of churchyards were extended, and forty new cemeteries were laid out.

This text is accessible to undergraduates and postgraduates, and will be an essential resource for historians, archaeologists and local government officials.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526103536
• Artikelnr.: 48795618

Autorenporträt

Julie Rugg is a Senior Research Fellow and heads the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART ONE 1. Burial in 1850: national and local contexts 2. 'Dr
Hoffman was good enough to consult me': churchyard closures 3. 'A very
modern act': the Churchyard Consecration Act and churchyard extension 4.
'It was entirely a question for the parishioners': burial board management
5. 'No differences are so deep as those which arise over the grave': the
religious politics of burial 6. 'Casting into the great crucible of the
present ferment all manner of time-honoured traditions': new legislative
contexts for twentieth-century burial PART TWO 7. 'It was a task which he
would be greatly pleased to hand over to some other person or persons':
centralisation and cemeteries, 1894-1974 8. 'Being desirous of avoiding a
burial board': the churchyard as cemetery 9. 'Unobservable or inconspicuous
to the casual visitor'?: the changing churchyard landscape 10. 'Thoroughly
untidy': changing burial culture, 1850-2007 Appendices Bibliography Index