Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Tarlow is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality (1999) and The Archaeology of Improvement (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain (1999) and Thinking through the Body (2002). She has published widely on archaeological theory, later historical archaeology, and the interdisciplinary study of death. Klappentext Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. Zusammenfassung Drawing on archaeological! historical! theological! scientific and folkloric sources! Sarah Tarlow's book addresses new questions about the problem of 'belief' in the past! and provides an original interpretive framework for the archaeological and historical evidence of death and the materiality of the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Religious belief; 3. Scientific belief; 4. Social belief; 5. Folk belief; 6. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Sarah Tarlow, Sarah (University of Leicester) Tarlow, Tarlow Sarah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521761543
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76154-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Ireland, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Archaeology by period / region, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Sociology: death and dying