Rugg Churchyard and cemetery

Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0352-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rugg, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PART ONE
1. Burial in 1850: national and local contexts
2. ‘Dr Hoffman was good enough to consult me’: churchyard closures
3. ‘A very modern act’: the Churchyard Consecration Act and churchyard extension
4. ‘It was entirely a question for the parishioners’: burial board management
5. ‘No differences are so deep as those which arise over the grave’: the religious politics of burial
6. ‘Casting into the great crucible of the present ferment all manner of time-honoured traditions’: new legislative contexts for twentieth-century burial
PART TWO
7. ‘It was a task which he would be greatly pleased to hand over to some other person or persons’: centralisation and cemeteries, 1894–1974
8. ‘Being desirous of avoiding a burial board’: the churchyard as cemetery
9. ‘Unobservable or inconspicuous to the casual visitor’?: the changing churchyard landscape
10. ‘Thoroughly untidy’: changing burial culture, 1850–2007
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rugg Julie:
Julie Rugg is a Senior Research Fellow and heads the Cemetery Research Group at the University of YorkJulie Rugg is a Senior Research Fellow and heads the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York