1 Introduction: Death and Burial in Post-medieval Europe

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Introduction: Death and Burial in Post-medieval Europe 1
4. 2 The Human Body as Material Culture ‒ Linköping Cathedral Churchyard in the Early Modern Period 19
5. 3 Approaches to Post-medieval Burial in England: Past and Present 39
6. 4 The Impact of Epidemics on Funerary Practices in Modern France (16th – 18th Centuries) 61
7. 5 The Co-Existence of Two Traditions in the Territory of Present-Day Latvia in the 13th–18th Centuries: Burial in Dress and in a Shroud 88
8. 6 Fashioning Death: Clothing, Memory and Identity in 16th Century Swedish Funerary Practice 111
9. 7 Tradition-based Concepts of Death, Burial and Afterlife: A Case from Orthodox Setomaa, South-Eastern Estonia 125
10. 8 Religion, Status and Taboo. Changing Funeral Rites in Catholic and Protestant Germany 148
11. 9 Hiding the Body: Ordering Space and Allowing Manipulation of Body Parts within Modern Cemeteries 170
12. 10 Burial Customs in the Northern Ostrobothnian Region (Finland) from the Late Medieval Period to the 20th Century. Plant Remains in Graves 189
13. 11 Death and Burial in Post-medieval Prague 204
14. List of Figures 222
15. List of Tables 223
16. Index 224