Title Ritual, belief, and the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland / Sarah Tarlow

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Religious belief -- 3. Scientific belief -- 4. Social belief -- 5. Folk belief -- 6. Conclusions Summary "Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific, and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period. This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death: what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary beliefs and practices in early modernity"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Ireland Dead -- Social aspects -- Great Britain Dead -- Social aspects -- Ireland Human body -- Social aspects -- Great Britain Human body -- Social aspects -- Ireland Human remains (Archaeology) -- Great Britain Human remains (Archaeology) -- Ireland SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying. Antiquities Dead -- Social aspects Funeral rites and ceremonies Human body -- Social aspects Human remains (Archaeology) SUBJECT Great Britain -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606 Ireland -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067965 Subject Great Britain Ireland Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139223690 1139223690 9780511778629 0511778627

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