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Place of the Dead

Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall
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      This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It argues that to contemporaries the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms, was a vitally important exercise, and one which often involved conflict and complex negotiation. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife and ghosts. Individually the essays help to illuminate several current historiographical concerns: the significance of the Black Death, the impact of the protestant and catholic Reformations, and interactions between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. Collectively, by exploring the social and cultural meanings of attitudes towards the dead, they provide insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall EAN: 9780521645188 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 545 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-28 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Europe, c 1500 onwards to present day, Sociology: death and dying, European history

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      This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It argues that to contemporaries the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms, was a vitally important exercise, and one which often involved conflict and complex negotiation. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife and ghosts. Individually the essays help to illuminate several current historiographical concerns: the significance of the Black Death, the impact of the protestant and catholic Reformations, and interactions between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. Collectively, by exploring the social and cultural meanings of attitudes towards the dead, they provide insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall EAN: 9780521645188 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 545 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-28 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General WIDTH: 153 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, c 1500 onwards to present day, Sociology: death and dying, European history

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