The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670But the impact of Reformation called into question many traditional attitudes, and although London was fairly successful in establishing a new consensus, burial of the dead became a serious point of conflict in Paris."--Jacket. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
London and Paris the setting of life and death | 16 |
Lamentable pinfoulds of the deaths of men parish churchyards and churchyard burial | 48 |
Innocents and outcasts civic and nonparochial churchyards | 87 |
Making churches charnel houses the constraints of church burial | 121 |
A fine and private place burial chapels vaults and tombs | 149 |
Meet and convenient for my estate and degree funeral conventions and choices | 178 |
The whole profit of the funeralls commercialisation and consumption | 210 |
Conclusion | 271 |
Mortality in the London parishes 1664 | 287 |
Mortality in the Paris parishes 1670 | 293 |
Funeral provision of Joan Brytten 1540 | 296 |
Funeral provision of Jeanne Passavent 1582 | 297 |
A note on sources | 299 |
Bibliography | 304 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670 |
| Author | Vanessa Harding |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0521811260, 9780521811262 |
| Length | 343 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / Europe / Renaissance History / Social History Social Science / Death & Dying |
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