Author: George Smith TyackPublisher: London : W. Andrews & Company
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lore and Legend of the English Church
Author: George Smith TyackPublisher: London : W. Andrews & Company
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lore and Legend of the English Church
Author: George Smith TyackPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337154240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Old Church Life
Author: William AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
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Author: The Lore of the Land
Author: Jennifer WestwoodPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Stop off at any English village or town or wander through the countryside and you will almost certainly brush up against some deep-rooted local myth or legend. This text looks at some of these stories, county by county, explaining when they date from, how they arose and what basis, if any, they have in fact.
Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend
Author: The Work of the Dead
Author: Thomas W. LaqueurPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691180938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
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Author: The Lore of the Land
Author: Jennifer WestwoodPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Where can you find the 'Devil's footprints'? What happened at the 'hangman's stone'? Did Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, ever really exist? Where was King Arthur laid to rest? Bringing together tales of hauntings, highwaymen, family curses and lovers' leaps, this magnificent guide will take you on a magical journey through England's legendary past.