Death, Ritual, and Bereavement

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-43709-1 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s. This edited collection focuses on the death-bed, funerals, burials, mourning customs, and the expression of grief. The essays throw fresh light on developments which lie at the roots of present-day tendencies to minimize or conceal the most unpleasant aspects of death, among them the growing participation of doctors in the management of death-beds in the eighteenth century and the creation of extra-mural cemeteries, followed by the introduction of cremation in the nineteenth century. The volume also underlines the importance of religious belief, in helping the bereaved in past times. The book will appeal to students and academics of family and social history as well as history of medicine, religion and anthropology.

Ralph Houlbrooke

Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Death, Church, and Family in England Between the Late Fifteenth and the Early Eighteenth Centuries 3. The Good Death in Seventeenth-Century England 4. Godly Grief: Individual Responses to Death in Seventeenth-Century Britain 5. Death and the Doctors in Georgian England 6. The Burial Question in Leeds in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 7. Why was Death so Big in Victorian Britain 8. Ashes to Ashes: Cremation and the Celebration of Death in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9. The Two Faces of Death: Children’s Magazines and their Treatment of Death in the Nineteenth Century 10. Victorian Unbelief and Bereavement 11. Death, Grief, and Mourning in the Upper-Class Family, 1860-1914 12. The Lancashire Way of Death Notes Bibliography The Contributors Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Ritual
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-43709-0 / 0367437090
ISBN-13	978-0-367-43709-1 / 9780367437091
Zustand	Neuware