Harding, Vanessa (2002) The dead and the living in Paris and London, 1500-1670. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521811262.
Abstract
This book is an exploration in social history, showing how the practices surrounding death and burial can illumine urban culture and experience. Vanessa Harding focuses on the crowded and turbulent worlds of early modern London and Paris, and makes rich use of contemporary documentation to compare and contrast their experience of dealing with the dead. The two cities shared many of the problems and pressures of urban life, including high mortality rates and a tradition of Christian burial and there are many similarities in their responses to death. The treatment of the dead reveals the communities' preoccupation with the use of space, control of the physical environment and the ordering of society and social behaviour. • Major study of death in the two great cities of Northern Europe • A vivid evocation of the impact of Reformation on a major cultural practice, with numerous examples from specific sites in both Paris and London • Richly documented and illustrated from contemporary accounts.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Additional Information: | Excerpt available from the publisher's web page at http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/11262/excerpt/9780521811262_excerpt.pdf DOI 10.2277/0521811260 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Plummer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2008 12:08 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:48 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/672 |
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