Description |
viii, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Death, church, and family in England between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries / Ralph Houlbrooke -- The good death in seventeenth-century England / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Godly grief : individual responses to death in seventeenth-century Britain / Anne Laurence -- Death and the doctors in Georgian England / Ray Porter -- The burial question in Leeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jim Morgan -- Why was death so big in Victorian Britain? / Ruth Richardson -- Ashes to ashes : cremation and the celebration of death in nineteenth-century Britain / Jennifer Leaney -- The two faces of death : children's magazines and the treatment of death in the nineteenth century / Diana Dixon -- Victorian unbelief and bereavement / Martha McMackin Garland -- Death, grief, and mourning in the upper-class family, 1860-1914 / Pat Jalland -- The Lancashire way of death / Elizabeth Roberts |
Analysis |
Great Britain Death customs, 1500-1940 |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 238-240 |
Subject |
Bereavement -- History.
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Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Social history.
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Bereavement.
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Attitude to Death.
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Funeral Rites.
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Social Environment.
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Thanatology.
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SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
Author |
Houlbrooke, Ralph A. (Ralph Anthony), 1944-
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LC no. |
88038724 |
ISBN |
0415011655 |
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