Death's summer coat : what the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living / Brandy Schillace
2015, 1st edition. London : Elliott and Thompson. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Item #384253
ISBN: 9781783960408
Physical description; 266 pp., illustrations, 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index. Contents; Dead and knowing it -- Eat your dead (and other advice) -- Through a glass, darkly -- Dying Victorian: memento mori, hair jewellery and crape -- Death at the anatomy theatre -- Death and the doctor -- Death comes to dinner. Subjects; Death Social aspects Great Britain. Death in popular culture Great Britain. Thanatology. Death Psychological aspects. Attitude to Death. Bereavement.
Price: €18.95