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Titolo: | Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe / / edited by Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu |
Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.90940903 |
Soggetto topico: | Death - Europe - History |
Altri autori: | RotarMarius TeodorescuAdriana |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | TABLE OF CONTENTS; STEPS IN THE COLD SHADOW; DEATH; DEATH AND MODERNISATION; RELIGION AND THE MEANING OF DEATH; HOW SACRED IS SECULAR DEATH? AND JUST HOW SECULAR CAN SACRED DEATH BE? ATHEORETICAL PROPOSAL; A PLACE FOR THE DEAD; THE ORDER OF FUNERAL SERVICES IN THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHAT THE END OF THE 17TH AND BEGINNING OF THE 18TH CENTURY, REFLECTED INTO THE FIRST ROMANIAN PRINTED BOOKS; UNDERSTANDING DEATHIN THE 21ST CENTURY; CULTURAL HISTORY OF DEATH; THESE HORRID SUPERSTITIONS; HONOUR AND DEATH IN MILITARY AND MILITARISTIC DISCOURSE IN ROMANIA 1859-1918; COLLECTIVE INTERMENTS |
INFANTICIDE -BETWEEN A PRIVATE MATTER AND PUBLIC CONCERN IN SERBIA FROM 1800 TO 1860WELCOMING HOME THE DEAD; THE DEATH OF THE STAR; DISPOSAL OF THE BODY; BODY, CULTURE, AND PLACE; THE NATURAL BURIAL GROUND BERGERBOS; BIRTH OF THE "CREMATION POWER"; ON CREMATION IN INTERWAR ROMANIA; NEW RITUALISATIONS OF DEATHIN 21ST CENTURY; LIMINAL BODIES OF THE DEAD AND DYING; DEATH AND MEMORY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN STREET POSTED OBITUARY; EVERPRIVATE GRIEF IN PUBLIC SPACE; THE MODERN HOSPICE MOVEMENT; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD). It invites you on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, Other death as your guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Italy are dealt Other, by authors from varying backgrounds: ... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe |
ISBN: | 1-283-30870-3 |
9786613308702 | |
1-4438-3256-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815617703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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