The English way of death : the common funeral since 1450
Litten, Julian1992
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The author takes the reader from the pomp of the post-medieval funeral to the anonymity of present day obsequies. The book examines the rise of undertaking as a trade and the changing etiquette which governed burial - lavish parades for the rich and interment in a woollen shroud for the poor.
Main title:
The English way of death : the common funeral since 1450 / Julian Litten.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hale, 1991 (1992[printing])
Collation:
xvii,254p., [16]p. of plates : ill(some col), facsims. ; 25cm.
ISBN:
9780709047773 (pbk)
Dewey class:
393.9393.909
Language:
English
BRN:
7556