Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670
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This book is an exploration in social history, showing how the practices surrounding death can illumine urban culture. Booknews Harding (London history, U. of London) compares the material reality of death and burial in the early modern urban settings of London and Paris, which experienced death rates three to four times those prevalent now. Coverage includes parish churchyards and churchyard burial; civic and non-parochial churchyards; the constraints of church burial; burial chapels, vaults, and tombs; funeral conventions and choices; the commercial aspects of funerals; and funerals as a social ritual of participation, and as a demonstration of solidarity, respect, or affection. For scholars and students interested in the history of the modern city, and social and cultural change in an urban environment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on spelling, sums of money, etcList of abbreviations1Introduction12London and Paris, the setting of life and death143'Lamentable pinfoulds of the deaths of men': parish churchyards and churchyard burial464Innocents and outcasts: civic and non-parochial churchyards855'Making churches charnel houses': the constraints of church burial1196'A fine and private place': burial chapels, vaults, and tombs1477'Meet and convenient for my estate and degree': funeral conventions and choices1768'The whole profit of the funeralls': commercialisation and consumption2089'The last love and ceremony': funerals, community, and civic identity23410Conclusion269App. 1Mortality in the London parishes, 1664285App. 2Mortality in the Paris parishes, 1670291App. 3Funeral provision of Joan Brytten, 1540294App. 4Funeral provision of Jeanne Passavent, 1582295App. 5: A note on sources297Bibliography302Index331
