Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal
In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked
Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temple in northern Japan. Instead of a conventional fa
In Couched in Death, Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches in the ancient Mediterranean world. These sixth- and fifth-century BCE klinai from Asia Mi
"Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses -- one as a preacher and one
Schulz (modern history, Newcastle U.) has made this first work about East German "sepulcher culture" extremely interesting, covering the period 1945 to 1990. He examines the origins of modern East Ger
Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals hav
Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals hav
This book, based on extensive original research, explores the various ways in which Japanese people think about death and how they approach the process of dying and death. It shows how new forms of fu
"Cremation, as a means of managing the post-mortem body, was reintroduced to Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, but would not become common practice until the second half of the nineteenth c
Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the liv
`Davies and Rumble analyse natural burial and give it a spiritual re-brand through which they highlight the potentially meaningless death exemplitied by conventional burial and cremation. Life style a
From the 1990s the British developed an interest innatural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial. Naturalburial constitutes part of a long, historical legacy for British funerali
Personal and yet universal, inevitable and unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures since earliest times. Remarkably, across the span of several millennia and despite the myriad of
Personal and yet universal, inevitable and unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures since earliest times. Remarkably, across the span of several millennia and despite the myriad of
Having written a book about the self-mummification of Buddhist monks in northern Japan, Jeremiah turns to Christian mummies drawing heavily from evidence in Italy, where there are more than 300 preser
This English translation of an original 2007 Italian publication examines themes surrounding death in the literature and history of the ancient Greek world. The work is divided thematically into secti
Examines the question of whether ancient Egyptian mummies can take vengeance on people by retelling in graphic novel form the story of the supposed curse on those who opened the tomb of Tutankhamen an
Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference?how the researcher can identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach begins
