Mirrors of mortality : studies in the social history of death

Author(s)

• Whaley, Joachim

Bibliographic Information

Mirrors of mortality : studies in the social history of death

edited by Joachim Whaley

（The Europa social history of human experience）

Europa, c1981

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• To die and enter the House of Hades : Homer, before and after / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
• Sacred corpse, profane carrion : social ideals and death rituals in the later Middle Ages / R.C. Finucane
• From "public" to "private" : the royal funerals in England, 1500-1830 / Paul S. Fritz
• Symbolism for the survivors : the disposal of the dead in Hamburg in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Joachim Whaley
• Death and the French historians / John McManners
• Sentiment and antiquity : European tombs, 1750-1830 / David Irwin
• From ritual to ceremony : death ritual and society in Hindu north India since 1600 / C.A. Bayly
• War and death, grief and mourning in modern Britain / David Cannadine

• NCID: BA07979943
• ISBN:
  • 0905118677
  • 0946653038
• LCCN: 81018363
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 252 p., [12] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1073
  • DC19 : 306
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Death -- Social aspects -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01280482