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In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material culture of later historical Britain.

Historic buildings --- Historic sites --- Material culture --- Cultural property --- Monuments historiques --- Lieux historiques --- Culture matérielle --- Biens culturels --- Conservation and restoration --- History --- Protection --- Conservation et restauration --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Historical geography. --- Social conditions --- Géographie historique --- Conditions sociales --- Culture matérielle --- Géographie historique --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Heritage places, Historic --- Heritage sites, Historic --- Historic heritage places --- Historic heritage sites --- Historic places --- Historical sites --- Places, Historic --- Sites, Historic --- Archaeology --- Monuments --- Historic houses, etc. --- Historical buildings --- Architecture --- Buildings --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period. This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death: what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary beliefs and practices in early modernity.

Dead --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Human body --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Social aspects --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Antiquities. --- Death --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Corps humain --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- History --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Grande-Bretagne --- Irlande --- Antiquités --- History. --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Mourning customs --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Corpse removals --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Obituaries

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Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirations. In the last decades, the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement to undertake archaeological excavation of historical sites has led to a massive increase in the number of post-medieval graveyards and burial places that have been subjected to archaeological investigation. The archaeology of the more recent periods, which are comparatively well documented, is no less interesting and important an area of study than prehistoric periods. This volume offers a range of case studies and reflections on aspects of death and burial in post-medieval Europe. Looking at burial goods, the spatial aspects of cemetery organisation and the way that the living interact with the dead, contributors who have worked on sites from Central, North and West Europe present some of their evidence and ideas. The coherence of the volume is maintained by a substantial integrative introduction by the editor, Professor Sarah Tarlow. "This book is a 'first' and a necessary one. It is an exciting and far-ranging collection of studies on post-medieval burial practice across Europe that will most certainly be used extensively" Professor Howard Williams

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Cryomation --- Archaeology, Post-medieval Europe, Burial Customs, Funeral Practices, Death and Burial, Cemeteries. --- Archaeothanatology --- Archaeology of death --- Death, Archaeology of --- Funerary archaeology --- Thanatology

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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

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Social archaeology --- Human body --- Human body --- Prehistoric peoples --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Material culture --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Social aspects --- History --- Symbolic aspects --- History --- History