Death, Ritual, and BereavementRalph Anthony Houlbrooke These essays focus on the social history of death in England from 1500 to the 1930s. |
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DEATH CHURCH AND FAMILY IN ENGLAND | 25 |
THE GOOD DEATH IN SEVENTEENTHCENTURY | 43 |
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES TO DEATH | 62 |
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Anglican Ariès attitudes Autobiography became believed bereaved body bodysnatchers Boy's Own Paper boys Britain burial ground celebration of death cemetery child Christian church churchyard classes coffin comfort concerned consolation corpse cremation cremationist customs dead death-bed Diary died doctor dying E. A. Wrigley eighteenth century emotional English essays evidence example experience father fear friends funeral funerary George Eliot Girl's Own Paper Gittings grave grief Henry historians history of death husband ibid illness important increasingly individual John Josselin Leeds letters liberal Christians living London Lord magazines medicine memory moriendi mortality mother neighbours nineteenth century Nonconformist opium parents parish period person physician pious practice premature burial Ralph Josselin religion religious responses Richardson rites rituals Roy Porter Ruth Richardson secular seems seventeenth seventeenth-century England sickness social history Society sorrow soul spiritual suffering testators traditional unbelievers Victorian celebration widows wife working-class wrote