ISBN:
9780521761543
,
0521761549
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 226 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Houlbrooke, Ralph Ritual, belief and the dead in early modern Britain and Ireland. By Sarah Tarlow. Pp. xii+226 incl. 34 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 521 76154 3 2013
Former Title:
Ritual, belief, and the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland
DDC:
393.0941
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Dead Social aspects
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Dead Social aspects
;
Human body Social aspects
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Human body Social aspects
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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Human remains (Archaeology)
;
Great Britain Antiquities
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Ireland Antiquities
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Great Britain
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Ireland
;
Dead
;
Social aspects
;
Great Britain
;
Dead
;
Social aspects
;
Ireland
;
Human body
;
Social aspects
;
Great Britain
;
Human body
;
Social aspects
;
Ireland
;
Human remains (Archaeology)
;
Great Britain
;
Human remains (Archaeology)
;
Ireland
;
Great Britain
;
Antiquities
;
Ireland
;
Antiquities
;
Großbritannien
;
Irland
;
Bestattungsritus
;
Leiche
;
Volksmedizin
;
Heilmittel
;
Totenglaube
;
Sektion
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
Abstract:
"Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific, and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period. This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death: what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary beliefs and practices in early modernity"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Religious belief; 3. Scientific belief; 4. Social belief; 5. Folk belief; 6. Conclusions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index -- Includes bibliographical references and index
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