1st Edition
Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England
By Clare Gittings
Copyright 1984
281 Pages
by
Routledge
281 Pages
by
Routledge
281 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1984, Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England traces how and why the modern reaction to death has come about by examining English attitudes to death since the Middle Ages. In earlier centuries death was very much in the midst of life since it was not, as now, associated mainly with old age. War, plague and infant mortality gave it a very different aspect to... Read more
List of Plates List of Tables and Graph System of References Acknowledgements Scopes and Sources 1. The Legacy of the Middle Ages 2. Funerals and Faith 3. Funerals of the Unfortunate 4. ‘Let’s choose executors’ 5. ‘Prepare to follow this fair corpse unto her grave’ 6. ‘The bringing home of bell and burial’ 7. ‘With mirth in funeral’ 8. ‘The trappings and the suits of woe’ 9. ‘Yield day to night…We mourn in black’ 10. ‘And my large kingdom for a little grave’ Statistical Appendix Bibliography Index of People and Places Index of Subjects
Biography
Clare Gittings
