Churchyard and cemetery : tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire / Julie Rugg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugg, Julie, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--England--North Yorkshire--History.

Cemeteries.

Burial--England--North Yorkshire--History.

Burial.

Mortality--England--North Yorkshire--History.

Mortality.

Death--Social aspects--England--North Yorkshire--History.

Death.

Death--Social aspects.

History.

England--North Yorkshire.

Physical Description:

xv, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Julie Rugg explores the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts and discloses the ways in which religious politics framed burial management. It presents an alternative history of burial which questions notions of tradition and modernity, and challenges long-standing assumptions about changing attitudes towards mortality in England.

Contents:

1 'So precisely the invention of a critical period': theorising cemeteries 1

Part 1 The churchyard in the cemetery, 1850-1894

2 Burial in 1850: national and local contexts 35

3 'Dr Hoffman was good enough to consult me': churchyard closures 64

4 'A very modern act': the Churchyard Consecration Act and churchyard extensions 92

5 'It was entirely a question for the parishioners': burial board management 132

6 'No differences are so deep as those which arise over the grave': the religious politics of burial 172

7 'Casting into the great crucible of the present ferment all manner of time-honoured traditions': new legislative contexts for twentieth-century burial 213

Part 2 The cemetery in the churchyard, 1894-2007

8 'It was a task which he would be greatly pleased to hand over to some other person or persons': centralisation and cemeteries, 1894-1974 249

9 'Being desirous of avoiding a burial board': the churchyard as cemetery 284

10 'Unobservable or inconspicuous to the casual visitor'?: the changing churchyard landscape 316

Conclusion

11 'Thoroughly untidy': changing burial culture, 1850-2007 354.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-416) and index.

ISBN:

9780719089206

0719089204

OCLC:

849208960