No Ordinary Deaths

Name: No Ordinary Deaths
ISBN: 9781800815889

автор: Molly Conisbee

ISBN: 9781800815889
Издательство: Profile Books
Год издания: 2026
Язык: Engleza
Формат: Мягкая обложка

Описание

The lost art of 'dying well' was common knowledge to our ancestors - who, living closer to death than we do, had an intimate and integrated relationship with the afterlife. For centuries, cycles of death, dying and disposal have shaped society, from the death-watchers of the Middle Age to the pomp of Victorian funeral wear.Ranging from the plague pit to the grave-robbery, from consecrated ground to the hangman's drop, No Ordinary Deaths is a groundbreaking work of social history which asks: how did our ancestors live, and die? How might the old ways help prepare us for our own ends?