Churchyard and cemetery
Subtitle: tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire
By: Julie Rugg
Publisher: Manchester University Press; distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780719089206
Subjects: Burial; Cemeteries; Death; Mortality; History
Other titles: Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire
Description: Julie Rugg explores the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts and discloses the ways in which religious politics framed burial management. It presents an alternative history of burial which questions notions of tradition and modernity, and challenges long-standing assumptions about changing attitudes towards mortality in England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-416) and index.