This ebook edition first published in 2013. The authors of the celebrated 'London: The Executioner's City
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English Pages 264 Year 2008
Table of contents :
Introduction
1. 'A Good Send-Off'
2. Resurrectionists and Bodysnatchers
3. Controversies
4. Bizarre Deaths
5. Churchyards and Other Burial Places
6. Death and the Afterlife in the Arts
7. Irrational Aspects
8. Death and Disaster
9. Pestilence and Public Health
10. Commemoration and Memory
11. Curious Memorials and Monuments
12. People and their Pains
13. Chronicling Death
Bibliography