Title & Author:

Death in towns : urban responses to the dying and the dead, 100-1600 / edited by Steven Bassett.

Publication:

Leicester ; New York : Leicester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Description:

vi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Papers from a conference, April 19-21, 1991, organized by the Urban Research Committee of the University of Birmingham.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The palaeopathology of urban infections / Keith Manchester -- Patronage, Collegia and burial in Imperial Rome / John Patterson -- Town and country in Roman Britain? / Simon Esmonde Cleary -- Mortality patterns in the Romano-British cemetery at Poundbury Camp, Dorchester / Theya Molleson -- Death and the dead in the late Roman West / Jill Harries -- Burial in middle Saxon Southampton / Alan Morton -- Urban cemetery location in the high Middle Ages / Julia Barrow -- Christian bodies and souls : the archaeology of life and death in later medieval hospitals / Roberta Gilchrist -- Burial choice and burial location in later medieval London / Vanessa Harding -- The Black Death in Florence : medical and communal responses / John Henderson -- Death and rebirth in late medieval Bury St Edmunds / Robert Dinn -- Urban funerals in late medieval and Reformation England / Clare Gittings -- Later medieval monumental brasses : an urban funerary industry and its representation of death / Malcolm Norris -- Dispersal or concentration : the disposal of the Winchester dead over 2000 years / Birthe KjØlbye-Biddle.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0718514181
9780718514181

Subject:

Funeral rites and ceremonies England History 16th century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies England History To 1500.
Funeral rites and ceremonies Europe History.
Civilization history
Funeral Rites history
Social Conditions history
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Europe Histoire.
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Bewältigung
Lebensbedrohende Krankheit
Medizinische Versorgung
Stadt
Stadtbevölkerung
Tod
Kongress
Stadscultuur.
Dood.
Sterven.
Death Social aspects Europe History 476-1492.
City and town life Europe History 476-1492.
Civilization, Medieval.
England Social life and customs To 1066.
England Social life and customs 1066-1485.
Europe.
England
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes Jusqu'à 1066.
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes 1066-1485.
Westeuropa
Death customs History
Western Europe

Form/genre:

Kongreß Birmingham 1989.
Conference papers (document genres)
History

Added entries:

Bassett, Steven.
University of Birmingham. Urban Research Committee.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189447
Call No.: GT3243.A2 D38 (ID:94-B514)
Status: Available