Peter C. Jupp, Hilary J. Grainger

Death in Scotland (eBook, PDF)

Chapters From the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For the past twenty years, Scottish death culture has emerged as a focus of scholars drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. Death comes to us all but too often we treat it as a private or personal matter. The former taboo about death is slowly lifting and contemporary research is playing an increasing part. Accordingly, the fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism. They analyse the public face of death in law, economics and medicine: changes in capital punishment, funeral poverty, the teaching of anatomy and prevention of stillbirths. Within the worlds of religion and ritual, they consider the making of saints, burial practice following the Scottish Reformation and the tradition of keening within the Gáidhealtachd. With an Introduction by Professor Jane Dawson, these essays by specialists in the field not only highlight the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland but reveal how death studies identify key features of Scottish life and society across ten centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789972696
• Artikelnr.: 68467391

Autorenporträt

Peter Jupp is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, a United Reformed Church minister and former Chair of the Cremation Society of Great Britain. Co-founding editor of the journal Mortality and co-founder of the conference series «The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal», he has published several books in death studies. He was the recipient of the Robert Fulton Center for Death and Education Founder's Award in 2010.

Hilary J. Grainger OBE is Dean and Professor of Architectural History at the University of the Arts London and Honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University. She is the leading authority on both the late Victorian architect Sir Ernest George and the architecture of British crematoria. She is Chair of the Victorian Society, President of the Association for the Study of Death and Society and Vice-Chair of the Cremation Society of Great Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS: Claire Harrill: The Death of a Queen and the Birth of a Saint: The Memorialisation and Canonisation of St Margaret of Scotland
George Thomson: Advanced Statistical Methods Identify Cultural Differences in Gravemarker Design
Victoria Hodgson: ' Ubi locum meum elegi' [where I chose my place]: Noble Burial at the Medieval Cistercian Abbey of Coupar Angus
Richard Fawcett: The Architectural Setting of Prayers for the Dead in Later Medieval Scottish Churches
Catherine McMillan: Negotiating Burial in Early Modern Scotland
Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart: Keening in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd
Cristina González
Longo: Robert Mylne and the First Baroque Mural Monument in Greyfriars Kirkyard, 1675 147
Rachel Bennett: 'I am resolved to avoid being made a public spectacle': Suicide and the Scottish Criminal Body
Ian Campbell: Approaching the End: Hogg's Confessions
Dee Hoole: Following Death: Pauper Bodies and the Medical Schools of Aberdeen, 1832
1914
Rosemary Hannah: The Third Marquess of Bute and the Supernatural
Maelle Duchemin
Delletier: Deadbirth or Stillbirth? Medical and Legislative Implications in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Michelle Foot: A Portrayal of Life Beyond Death: Helen Duncan's Spirit Guide and His Portrait
Glenys Caswell: Local Authority Funerals in Early Twenty
first
century Scotland
Hilary J. Grainger: Private Sector, Collective Need: The Architecture and Design of Scottish Crematoria, 1973
2018.