THE DEAD AND THE LIVING IN PARIS AND LONDON, 1500-1670 by Vanessa Harding ( 9780521811262 )

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THE DEAD AND THE LIVING IN PARIS AND LONDON, 1500-1670

By:

Vanessa Harding

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Hardback

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0521811260

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

20 June, 2002

Pages:

360

Description:

This 2002 book is an exploration in social history, showing how the practices surrounding death can illumine urban culture.

Synopsis:

This 2002 book is an exploration in social history, showing how the practices surrounding death and burial can illumine urban culture and experience. Vanessa Harding focuses on the crowded and turbulent worlds of early modern London and Paris, and makes rich use of contemporary documentation to compare and contrast their experience of dealing with the dead. The two cities shared many of the problems and pressures of urban life, including high mortality rates and a tradition of Christian burial and there are many similarities in their responses to death. The treatment of the dead reveals the communities' preoccupation with the use of space, control of the physical environment and the ordering of society and social behaviour.

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10 b/w illus. 2 maps

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