The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 15001670
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521811262
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social history; London; France; England; Western Europe - General; History; Death / Grief / Consolation; History: World; Europe; London, Greater London; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Death & Dying; Cemeteries--England--London; History / Great Britain; Paris; Europe - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Cemeteries; Great Britain
First sentence: A wide plain, apparently of churned mud, stretched almost to the horizon, bounded by the tall buildings of the twentieth-century city.