The Arniston Memoirs
Author: George William Thomson Omond
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 512
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Author: George William Thomson Omond
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 512
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Published: 1825
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick George Aflalo
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Purdy
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
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Published: 1807
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Purdy
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 536
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 562
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 634
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Signet Library (Great Britain)
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-01-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521645188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.