The Place of the Dead

Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Autor*innen

• Bruce Gordon
• Peter Marshall

Parameter

• 338 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Geschichte und Fakten
• Historisches Thema
• Sonstige Geschichte
• Tod

Mehr zum Buch

Although much has been published on the social history of death, this is the first book to give a comprehensive account of attitudes toward the dead--above all the "placing" of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms--in order to reveal the social and religious outlook of past societies. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes toward the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife, and ghosts.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Einband: Paperback