Legacey Making Space for the Dead

Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5017-1561-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

LegaceyErin-Marie: Erin-Marie Legacey is Assistant Professor of French History at Texas Tech University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Legacey, Erin-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Revolution of the Dead
1. The Problem of the Dead: In which the French Revolution interrupts and intervenes in Paris's preexisting burial crisis.
2. The Solution of the Dead: In which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror.
3. The City of the Dead: In which Parisians visit and respond to their city's new burial space, Père Lachaise Cemetery.
4. The Empire of the Dead: In which thousands of visitors descend ninety feet below the city to tour the newly opened Paris Catacombs.
5. The Museum of the Dead: In which the artist and administrator Alexandre Lenoir displays the dead as history in the Museumof French Monuments.
Conclusion: The Historian of the Dead: In which the Romantic historian Jules Michelet resurrects the history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead.
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

LegaceyErin-Marie:
Erin-Marie Legacey is Assistant Professor of French History at Texas Tech University.