No Ordinary Deaths : A People's History of Mortality, Molly Conisbee

No Ordinary Deaths : A People's History of Mortality, Molly ConisbeeNew Paperback 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

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