ISBN:
9780511778629
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
393.0941
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1700
;
Funde
;
Gesellschaft
;
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
;
Totenglaube
;
Sektion
;
Heilmittel
;
Leiche
;
Bestattungsritus
;
Volksmedizin
;
Großbritannien
;
Irland
;
Great Britain / Antiquities
;
Ireland / Antiquities
;
Irland
;
Großbritannien
;
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:
1. Introduction -- 2. Religious belief -- 3. Scientific belief -- 4. Social belief -- 5. Folk belief -- 6. Conclusions
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511778629
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778629
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778629
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