Burial and Death in Colonial North America
Burial and Death in Colonial North America

Author: Robyn S. Lacy

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-09-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1789730430

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This book explores the relationship and organization of 17th Century burial landscapes within their associated settlements and the wider setting of colonial northeast British North America to provide readers with a more holistic understanding of settlers’ relationship with mortality.

Graven Images
Graven Images

Author: Allan I. Ludwig

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.

Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards
Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards

Author: Sylvia E. Thornbush

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

Published: 2020-04-27

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9811441243

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his interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.

Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750
Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750

Author: Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780198208761

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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.

The True Image
The True Image

Author: Daniel W. Patterson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-10-08

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0807837539

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A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group.