Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England
Author: Clare Gittings
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clare Gittings
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clare Gittings
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-10-13
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000995062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 its present one. The author shows in detail how modern concern with the individual has gradually alienated death from our society; the greater the emphasis on personal uniqueness, the more intense the anguish when an individual dies. Changes in attitudes to death are traced through alterations in funeral rituals, covering all sections of society from paupers to princes. This gracefully written book is a unique, scholarly and thorough treatment of the subject, providing both a sensitive insight into the feelings of people in early modern England and an explanation of the modern anxiety about death. The range and assurance of this book will commend it to historians and the interested general reader alike.
Author: Bruce Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-01-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521645188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It argues that to contemporaries the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms, was a vitally important exercise, and one which often involved conflict and complex negotiation. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife and ghosts. Individually the essays help to illuminate several current historiographical concerns: the significance of the Black Death, the impact of the protestant and catholic Reformations, and interactions between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. Collectively, by exploring the social and cultural meanings of attitudes towards the dead, they provide insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.
Author: Philip Booth
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9004443436
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.
Author: Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780198208761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the effects of religious change on the English way of death between 1480 and 1750. It discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject such as the death-bed, will-making and the last rites.
Author: Jennifer Woodward
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0851157041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Author: Peter C. Jupp
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780719058110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book charts the story of the way in which our forebears coped with aspects of their daily lives.
Author: Peter Sherlock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1351916815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
Author: Lucy Razzall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-19
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1108831338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.