Making Space for the Dead (eBook)

Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830

Erin-Marie Legacey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
228 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1560-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "e;putrid miasmas"e; that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial culture emerged in Paris as a result of both revolutionary fervor and public health concerns, resulting in the construction of park-like cemeteries on the outskirts of the city and a vast underground ossuary.Making Space for the Dead describes how revolutionaries placed the dead at the center of their republican project of radical reinvention of French society and envisioned a future where graveyards would do more than safely contain human remains; they would serve to educate and inspire the living. Legacey unearths the unexpectedly lively process by which burial sites were reimagined, built, and used, focusing on three of the most important of these new spaces: the Paris Catacombs, Pere Lachaise cemetery, and the short-lived Museum of French Monuments.By situating discussions of death and memory in the nation's broader cultural and political context, as well as highlighting how ordinary Parisians understood and experienced these sites, she shows how the treatment of the dead became central to the reconstruction of Parisian society after the Revolution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: anatomy • Art History • Bastille • Bones and skeletons • burial • Catacombes de Paris • Catacombs museum • Catacombs tour • Cemetery • Charles de Gaulle • Death • Death and culture • Death and religion • France • French culture • French Revolution • French Revolution, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Catacombs, funeral rites, Museum of French Monuments • French Revolution,Pere Lachaise Cemetery,Paris Catacombs,funeral rites,Museum of French Monuments • funeral rites • Ghost Stories • Historical burial site • Labyrinthine network • Macabre decor • Museum of French Monuments • Paris catacombs • Paris landmarks • Paris underground exploration • pasis tourism • Pere Lachaise Cemetery • Quarries of Paris • Secret Passages • Skull-lined walls • Subterranean tunnels • tourist attraction • Underground ossuary
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1560-7 / 1501715607
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1560-0 / 9781501715600