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This book features the second selection of the most representative papers presented at the international conference ""Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe"" (ABDD), a traditional scientific event organized every year in Alba Iulia, Romania. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, using the concept of death as a guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Lithuani

Writing the dead : text and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England / Jill Hamilton Clements -- From powerful agents to subordinate objects? : the restless dead in 13th- and 14th-century Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva -- Animated corpses and bodies with power in the scholastic age / Winston Black -- Women, dance, death, and lament in medieval Spain and the Mediterranean : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim examples / Cynthia Sautter -- Wills and testaments / Francine Michaud -- Spectacular death : capital punishment in medieval English towns / James Davis -- Ghostly knights : kings' funerals in 14th century Europe and the emergence of an international style / Mikhail A. Boytsov -- Death of clergymen : popes and cardinals' death rituals / Joelle Rollo-Koster -- A dead zone in the historiography of death in the Middle Ages : the sentiment of suspicious death / Franck Collard -- Registering deaths and causes of death in late medieval Milan / Ann G. Carmichael.

In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using his college LSD trips to explain death to his children; and he gets to know his own grandparents, posthumously. These are stories of loss, rebuilding, wonder, and wild speculation featuring everyone from philosophers to former death row wardens and hospice volunteers. In these moving, enlightening, and often funny conversations, the end is only the beginning.

Reports the death toll for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Northern Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Notes the particular problems of those without documentation, underworld criminals exploiting trade in human beings, the continuing expansion of 'illegal' categories, the end of human rights, the mental torture of detention, institutionalized inhumanity, emergency measures, racism in Italy and sectarianism, nationalism and serial killers.

Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, this volume considers what death photography communicates about attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Focusing on American examples, topics are discussed alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen in celebrity death images and forensic photography.

Leads the reader into the villages and cities of early modern European society. The book begins with an overview of family and community structure, social conflict, and religious beliefs. After describing the fundamental traits of both rural and urban society, it considers the elites, armed rebellion, poverty, criminality, sexual behavior, and marriage practices. For this second edition, the author has added a new chapter on the incessant warfare that was characteristic of this age and on the transformation of warfare by the new commercial capitalism. -- from back cover

This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths of children. Child death was the great equaliser of the early modern period, affecting people of all ages and conditions. It is well recognised that the deaths of children struck at the heart of early modern families, yet less known is the variety of ways that not only parents, but siblings, communities and even nations, responded to childhood death. The contributors to this volume ask what emotional responses to child death tell us about childhood and the place of children in society. Placing children and their voices at the heart of this investigation, they track how emotional norms, values, and practices shifted across the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries through different religious, legal and national traditions. This collection demonstrates that child death was not just a family matter, but integral to how communities and societies defined themselves.

Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

"The History of Death explores the compelling subject of death, burial, and the afterlife in varied cultures, societies, and ages. Examines the various approaches to funerals, from sky burials in Tibet and mummification in Egypt, to being left to rot in the family home in Indonesia. Balances grim facts with intriguing details, such as remarkable burial requests, extravagant funerals, human sacrifice, and ritual killings. Illustrated throughout with photographs and artworks of representations of death and funerary rituals throughout history up to the present day"--Back cover

Strange business -- The justification : Beecher's ethics -- The law -- The criteria I : the waking brain--brainstem and the discourse of consciousness -- The criteria II : the working brain : the comatose patient and the biology of consciousness -- Brain death after Beecher and the limits of bioethics