"The History of Dealings with the Dead" in 2 volumes is a book written by the American author Lucius Manlius Sargent that features customs and traditions regard

Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its

The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureauc

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