Death in England : an illustrated history / Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings, eds.
2018, 1st edition in this form. Manchester : Manchester University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385945
ISBN: 9780719058110
Physical description; 290 pp., illustrations (some color), 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1.From remote times to the Bronze Age: c. 500,000 B.C. to c. 600 B.C. / Keith Ray -- 2.The Iron and Roman Ages: c. 600 B.C. to A.D. 400 / Valerie M. Hope -- 3.Pagans and Christians: 400-1150 / Victoria Thompson / Christopher Daniell -- 4.Purgatory, prayer and plague: 1150-1380 / Rosemary Horrox -- 5.Of worms and war: 1380-1558 / Philip Morgan -- 6.Sacred and secular: 1558-1660 / Clare Gittings -- 7.The age of decency: 1660-1760 / Ralph Houlbrooke -- 8.From reason to regulation: 1760-1850 / Julie Rugg -- 9.Victorian death and its decline: 1850-1918 / Pat Jalland -- 10.The healthy society: 1918-98 / Tony Walter / Peter C. Jupp. Subjects; Bronze Age. Iron Age. Medieval Period. Modern Period. Death Social aspects England. Funeral rites and ceremonies. History. Sociology. Attitude to death.
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