Death, Ritual, and Bereavement

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

Ralph Houlbrooke

Foreword  1. Introduction  2. Death, Church, and Family in England Between the Late Fifteenth and the Early Eighteenth Centuries  3. The Good Death in Seventeenth-Century England  4. Godly Grief: Individual Responses to Death in Seventeenth-Century Britain  5. Death and the Doctors in Georgian England  6. The Burial Question in Leeds in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  7. Why was Death so Big in Victorian Britain  8. Ashes to Ashes: Cremation and the Celebration of Death in Nineteenth-Century Britain  9. The Two Faces of Death: Children's Magazines and their Treatment of Death in the Nineteenth Century  10. Victorian Unbelief and Bereavement  11. Death, Grief, and Mourning in the Upper-Class Family, 1860-1914  12. The Lancashire Way of Death  Notes Bibliography  The Contributors  Index