Mirrors of mortality
Subtitle: studies in the social history of death
By: edited by Joachim Whaley.
Contributors: Whaley, Joachim.
Series: The Social history of human experience
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Death -- Social aspects -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: To die and enter the House of Hades / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood; value: Sacred corpse, profane carrion / R.C. Finucane; value: From public to private, the royal funerals in England, 1500-1830 / Paul S. Fritz; value: Symbolism for the survivors / Joachim Whaley; value: Death and the French historians / John McManners; value: Sentiment and antiquity / David Irwin; value: From ritual to ceremony / C.A. Bayly; value: War and death, grief and mourning in modern Britain / David Cannadine.