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Author: W. M. Spellman
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233051
Size: 33.24 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-02-15
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF A Brief History Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As humans, death—its certainty, its inevitability—consumes us. We make it the subject of our literature, our art, our philosophy, and our religion. Our feelings and attitudes toward our mortality and its possible afterlives have evolved greatly from the early days of mankind. Collecting these views in this topical and instructive book, W. M. Spellman considers death and dying from every angle in the Western tradition, exploring how humans understand and come to terms with the end of life. Using the work of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, Spellman examines how interpreting physical remains gives us insight into prehistoric perspectives on death. He traces how humans have died over the centuries, both in the causes of death and in the views of actions that lead to death. He spotlights the great philosophical and scientific traditions of the West, which did not believe in an afterlife or see the purpose of bereavement, while also casting new light on the major religious beliefs that emerged in the ancient world, particularly the centuries-long development of Christianity. He delves into three approaches to the meaning of death—the negation of life, continuity in another form, and agnosticism—from both religious and secular-scientific perspectives. Providing a deeper context for contemporary debates over end-of-life issues and the tension between longevity and quality of life, A Brief History of Death is an illuminating look at the complex ways humans face death and the dying.

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Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375424237
Size: 22.63 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2006-02-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Brief History Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

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Book Detail:
Author: Douglas Davies
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 0470777044
Size: 79.31 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Brief History Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies – internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field – tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying. Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world Considers the profound influence death has had on subjects ranging from philosophy to anthropology, through to art, literature, and music - inspiring some of our most enduring artistic highpoints Broaches some of the most significant aspects of death, such as the act of dying, grieving, burial, artistic interpretations of death, places of memory, the fear of death, and disasters/tragedies Weaves these numerous approaches to death into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying Contains several illustrations, and is written in an accessible and lively style.

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Book Detail:
Author: Douglas James Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 64.63 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2005
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF A Brief History Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137103493
Size: 46.46 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-04-30
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Black Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries - including Muslim and Byzantine sources - to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, and questions to consider.

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Book Detail:
Author: Matthew Suriano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844752
Size: 43.48 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018-04-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A History Of Death In The Hebrew Bible eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This book examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant. The mortuary culture of Judah during the Iron Age is the starting point for this study. The practice of collective burial inside a Judahite rock-cut bench tomb is compared to biblical traditions of family tombs and joining one's ancestors in death. This archaeological analysis, which also incorporates funerary inscriptions, will shed important insight into concepts found in biblical literature such as the construction of the soul in death, the nature of corpse impurity, and the idea of Sheol. In Judah and the Hebrew Bible, death was a transition that was managed through the ritual actions of the living. The connections that were forged through such actions, such as ancestor veneration, were socially meaningful for the living and insured a measure of immortality for the dead.

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Book Detail:
Author: Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763669636
Size: 11.78 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2015
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Death Of The Hat eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The award-winning creators of A Foot in the Mouth present a collection of poems inspired by earthly and celestial objects to reveal how poetry has been an enduring artistic form that reflects the historical periods of its writers.

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Book Detail:
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367137168
Size: 26.69 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2020-10-14
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF The Routledge History Of Death Since 1800 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history - the history of the past 250 years - in a global context, through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes and a complex, qualitative assessment of the subject. The book is divided into three parts, with the first considering major trends in death history and identifying widespread patterns of change and continuity in the material and cultural features of death since 1800. The second part turns to specifically regional experiences, and the third offers more specialized chapters on key topics in the modern history of death. Historical findings and debates feed directly into a current and prospective assessment of death, as many societies transition into patterns of ageing that will further alter the death experience and challenge modern reactions. Thus, a final chapter probes this topic, by way of introducing the links between historical experience and current trajectories, ensuring that the book gives the reader a framework for assessing the ongoing process, as well as an understanding of the past. Global in focus and linking death to a variety of major developments in modern global history, the volume is ideal for all those interested in the multifaceted history of how death is dealt with in different societies over time and who want access to the rich and growing historiography on the subject. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at https: //tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780429028274_oachapter1.pdf.

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Book Detail:
Author: Casey Jarman
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1541581733
Size: 78.88 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2019-08-01
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using his college LSD trips to explain death to his children; and he gets to know his own grandparents, posthumously. These are stories of loss, rebuilding, wonder, and wild speculation featuring everyone from philosophers to former death row wardens and hospice volunteers. In these moving, enlightening, and often funny conversations, the end is only the beginning.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ben Norman
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526755270
Size: 57.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-11-13
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF A History Of Death In 17th Century England eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A look at the constant confrontation with mortality the English experienced in a time of plague, smallpox, civil war, and other calamities. In the lives of the rich and poor alike in seventeenth-century England, death was a hovering presence, much more visible in everyday existence than it is today. It is a highly important and surprisingly captivating part of the epic story of England during the turbulent years of the 1600s. This book guides readers through the subject using a chronological approach, as would have been experienced by those living in the country at the time, beginning with the myriad causes of death, including rampant disease, war, and capital punishment, and finishing with an exploration of posthumous commemoration, including mass interments in times of disease, the burial of suicides, and the unconventional laying to rest of English Catholics. Although the people of the seventeenth century did not fully realize it, when it came to the confrontation of mortality they were living in wildly changing times.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Wilkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760700372
Size: 11.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1996
Category: Burial
Language: en
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Download PDF Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Neil R Storey
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752492489
Size: 53.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2013-04-08
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Little Book Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This little book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the one certainty in all our lives - death. Within this volume are some horrible, unfortunate and downright ludicrous ends. Find out what body parts of the departed great and famous are still with us (and, in some cases, what they sold for). Learn of odd last requests, burials, epitaphs and death rites from around the world, as well as the strange fates of some cadavers – and a whole host of horrible tales about mummies, vampires, zombies, auto-icons and body-snatchers. Anyone brave enough to read this book will be entertained and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance a conversation or quiz! With 50 chilling illustrations, get out of your crypt and buy it whilst you can!

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Book Detail:
Author: Andrew Doig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526624419
Size: 59.29 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2022-07-26
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF This Mortal Coil eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An entertaining, eye-opening work of popular history that illuminates how death has changed across time

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Book Detail:
Author: John Aberth
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN: 9780312400873
Size: 78.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2005-02-01
Category: History
Language: en
View: 1931
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Download PDF The Black Death The Great Mortality Of 1348 1350 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the fourteenth century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries — including Muslim and Byzantine sources — to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, questions to consider, a selected bibliography, and an index.

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Book Detail:
Author: Brandy Schillace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770938
Size: 64.14 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2016-01-15
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death S Summer Coat What The History Of Death And Dying Teaches Us About Life And Living eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the tradition of Being Mortal, Brandy Schillace looks at what we can learn from the incredibly diverse ways in which humans have dealt with mortality in different times and places Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances. We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Kerrigan
Publisher: Amber Books
ISBN: 9781782744917
Size: 42.54 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF The History Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "The History of Death explores the compelling subject of death, burial, and the afterlife in varied cultures, societies, and ages. Examines the various approaches to funerals, from sky burials in Tibet and mummification in Egypt, to being left to rot in the family home in Indonesia. Balances grim facts with intriguing details, such as remarkable burial requests, extravagant funerals, human sacrifice, and ritual killings. Illustrated throughout with photographs and artworks of representations of death and funerary rituals throughout history up to the present day"--Back cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Seth Kotch
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649888
Size: 25.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-01-10
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Lethal State eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought to remake its image as modern and business-progressive in the early twentieth century, the question of execution preoccupied lawmakers, reformers, and state boosters alike. In this book, Seth Kotch recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina from its colonial origins to the present. He tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies. Through this lens, Lethal State helps explain not only Americans' deep and growing uncertainty about the death penalty but also their commitment to it. Kotch argues that Jim Crow justice continued to reign in the guise of a modernizing, orderly state and offers essential insight into the relationship between race, violence, and power in North Carolina. The history of capital punishment in North Carolina, as in other states wrestling with similar issues, emerges as one of state-building through lethal punishment.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hourly History
Publisher: Hourly History
ISBN: 1096608979
Size: 19.62 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-02-16
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Black Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched book, the trajectory of the plague’s march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored. Inside you will read about... ✓ What was the Black Death? ✓ A Short History of Pandemics ✓ Chronology & Trajectory ✓ Causes & Pathology ✓ Medieval Theories & Disease Control ✓ Black Death in Medieval Culture ✓ Consequences Fascinating insights into the medieval mind’s perception of the disease and examinations of contemporary accounts give a complete picture of what the world’s most effective killer meant to medieval society in particular and humanity in general.

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Book Detail:
Author: Philippe Aries
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804152004
Size: 14.42 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-11-06
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Hour Of Our Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature. Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Ariès shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Ariès identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Ariès shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century—how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives—and points out what may be done to “re-tame” this secret terror. The richness of Ariès's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history—indeed the pathology—of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691214905
Size: 39.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-03-16
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF In My Time Of Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Parker considers many questions from the African historical perspective, including why people die and where they go after death, how the dead are buried and mourned to ensure they continue to work for the benefit of the living, and how perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life have changed over time. From exuberant funeral celebrations encountered by seventeenth-century observers to the brilliantly conceived designer coffins of the late twentieth century, Parker shows that the peoples of Ghana have developed one of the world’s most vibrant cultures of death. He explores the unfolding background of that culture through a diverse range of issues, such as the symbolic power of mortal remains and the dominion of hallowed ancestors, as well as the problem of bad deaths, vile bodies, and vengeful ghosts. Parker reconstructs a vast timeline of death and the dead, from the era of the slave trade to the coming of Christianity and colonial rule to the rise of the modern postcolonial nation. With an array of written and oral sources, In My Time of Dying richly adds to an understanding of how the dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.

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