Ritual Belief And The Dead In Early Modern Britain And Ireland

Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139492969
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland written by Sarah Tarlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Professor of Historical Archaeology Sarah Tarlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139223690
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland written by Professor of Historical Archaeology Sarah Tarlow and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland.

Author : Clare Gittings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000995011
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England written by Clare Gittings and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England traces how and why the modern reaction to death has come about by examining English attitudes to death since the Middle Ages. In earlier centuries death was very much in the midst of life since it was not, as now, associated mainly with old age. War, plague and infant mortality gave it a very different aspect to its present one. The author shows in detail how modern concern with the individual has gradually alienated death from our society; the greater the emphasis on personal uniqueness, the more intense the anguish when an individual dies. Changes in attitudes to death are traced through alterations in funeral rituals, covering all sections of society from paupers to princes. This gracefully written book is a unique, scholarly and thorough treatment of the subject, providing both a sensitive insight into the feelings of people in early modern England and an explanation of the modern anxiety about death. The range and assurance of this book will commend it to historians and the interested general reader alike.

Author : Andrew Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108853390
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain written by Andrew Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome's enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.

Author : Lucy Razzall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831338
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boxes and Books in Early Modern England written by Lucy Razzall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.

Author : Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198208761
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750 written by Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the effects of religious change on the English way of death between 1480 and 1750. It discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject such as the death-bed, will-making and the last rites.

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044355
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England written by Andrew Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world practiced 'arts of remembrance' at every turn. The turmoils of the Reformation and its aftermath transformed the habits of creating through remembrance. Ritually observed and radically reinvented, remembrance was a focal point of the early modern cultural imagination for an age when beliefs both crossed and divided communities of the faithful. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England maps the new terrain of remembrance in the post-Reformation period, charting its negotiations with the material, the textual and the performative.

Author : Clare Gittings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England written by Clare Gittings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Tait
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913951
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 written by C. Tait and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private and public commemoration of the dead, and ideas about the afterlife. It further considers ways in which the living fashioned ceremonies of death and the reputations of the dead to support their own ends. It will be of interest to those concerned with Irish history and death studies generally.

Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108911501
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England written by Alanna Skuse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching questions about the nature of body integrity and its relationship to the soul: was the body a part of one's identity, or a mere 'prison' for the mind? How was the body connected to personal morality? What happened to the altered body after death? Drawing on a wide variety of texts including medical treatises, plays, poems, newspaper reports and travel writings, this volume will argue the answers to these questions were flexible, divergent and often surprising, and helped to shape early modern thoughts on philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.