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Folklore --- Vampiers --- Vampires --- Dead --- -Postmortem changes --- -Vampires --- Animals, Mythical --- Superstition --- Change, Postmortem --- Change after death --- Changes, Postmortem --- Changes after death --- Post-mortem changes --- Death (Biology) --- Decomposition (Chemistry) --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Postmortem changes --- Dead (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Lesbian vampires --- Monsters

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This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with insights that easily go beyond the history of anatomy and the specific case of Belgium. From acquisition to disposal, the trajectories of the corpse changed under the influence of social policies, ideological tensions, religious sensitivities, cultures of death and broader changes in the field of medical ethics. Anatomists increasingly had to reconcile their ways with the diverse meanings that the dead body held. To a certain extent, as this book argues, they started to treat the corpse as subject rather than object. Interweaving broad historical evolutions with detailed case studies, this book offers unique insights into a field dominated by Anglo-American perspectives, evaluating the similarities and differences within other European contexts.

Dead. --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Europe, Central—History. --- Medicine—History. --- History. --- Civilization—History. --- Social history. --- History of Germany and Central Europe. --- History of Medicine. --- History of Science. --- Cultural History. --- Social History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history

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In De cura pro mortuis gerenda Augustine interweaves an assessment of burial near the memorial of a martyr with a series of dream narratives. The seeming lack of coherence between argument and narrative in this treatise has puzzled many scholars. Combining an analysis of the overall structure of the argument and a detailed philological commentary, this study shows that Augustine’s text forms a well-composed unity. The study is based on discourse-linguistic and narratological concepts as well as an analysis of the global structure of the narratives. Relying on this combined approach Rose demonstrates how Augustine explores the full breadth of his narrative material in the service of his argument. In addition, this book situates Augustine’s text in its cultural-historical context.

Dead --- Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- RELIGION / Christian Theology / Eschatology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Corpse removals --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Obituaries --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Augustine, --- Early works to 1800.

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This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional.

Dead --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Social aspects --- History --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Human body --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. --- Bronze age.

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This handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with 44 chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Dead --- Burial --- Funérailles --- Morts --- Sépulture --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire --- Dead. --- Burial. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. --- Funérailles --- Sépulture --- Rites et cérémonies --- Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Cryomation --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs