The empire of death : a cultural history of ossuaries and charnel houses /
Koudounaris, Paul.
London : Thames & Hudson,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: a dialogue with death -- Ars Moriendi: The early charnel houses -- The golden age: Counter-reformation macabre -- The triumph of death: nineteenth-century visions in bone -- Heavenly souls: spiritualism and mythology in the bone pile -- Forget me not: ossuaries as commemorative sites -- Resurrecting the dead: conservation and reconstruction.
Ossuaries
Tombs
Church buildings