The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe.

The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe.

Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirati...

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Main Author: Tarlow, Sarah, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Warschau/Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.
Subjects:
Burial > Europe.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Burial
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Death and Burial in Post-medieval Europe
  • 2 The Human Body as Material Culture
  • Linköping Cathedral Churchyard in the Early Modern Period
  • 3 Approaches to Post-medieval Burial in England: Past and Present
  • 4 The Impact of Epidemics on Funerary Practices in Modern France
  • (16th
  • 18th Centuries)
  • 5 The Co-Existence of Two Traditions in the Territory of Present-Day Latvia in the 13th-18th Centuries: Burial in Dress and in a Shroud
  • 6 Fashioning Death: Clothing, Memory and Identity in 16th Century Swedish Funerary Practice
  • 7 Tradition-based Concepts of Death, Burial and Afterlife: A Case from Orthodox Setomaa, South-Eastern Estonia
  • 8 Religion, Status and Taboo. Changing Funeral Rites in Catholic and Protestant Germany
  • 9 Hiding the Body: Ordering Space and Allowing Manipulation of Body Parts within Modern Cemeteries
  • 10 Burial Customs in the Northern Ostrobothnian Region (Finland) from the Late Medieval Period to the 20th Century. Plant Remains in Graves
  • 11 Death and Burial in Post-medieval Prague
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Index.

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