Death, Ritual, and Bereavement

Abstract

Preface 1. Introduction, Ralph Houlbrooke 2. Death, church, and family in England between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, Ralph Houlbrooke 3. The good death in seventeenth-century England, Lucinda McCray Beier 4. Godly grief: individual responses to death in seventeenth-century Britain, Anne Laurence 5. Death and the doctors in Georgian England, Roy Porter 6. The burial question in Leeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jim Morgan 7. Why was death so big in Victorian Britain , Ruth Richardson 8. Ashes to ashes: cremation and the celebration of death in nineteenth-century Britain, Jennifer Leaney 9. The two faces of death: children's magazines and their treatment of death in the nineteenth century, Diana Dixon 10. Victorian unbelief and bereavement, Martha McMackin Garland 11. Death, grief and mourning in the upper-class family 1860-1914, Pat Jalland 12. The Lancashire way of death, Elizabeth Roberts Notes Bibliography Index.