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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugg, Julie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cemeteries.

Mortality--England--History.

Mortality.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Distribution:

New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England ; New York, New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This book explores, for the first time, 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. This study diverges from the long-standing tendency to regard the churchyard as inherently 'traditional' and

Contents:

CHURCHYARD AND CEMETERY: TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN RURAL NORTH YORKSHIRE; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of plates, figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. 'So precisely the invention of a critical period': theorising cemeteries; Part One: The churchyard in the cemetery, 1850-1894; 2. Burial in 1850: national and local contexts; 3. 'Dr Hoffman was good enough to consult me': churchyard closures; 4. 'A very modern act': the Churchyard Consecration Act and churchyard extensions

5. 'It was entirely a question for the parishioners': burial board management6. 'No differences are so deep as those which arise over the grave': the religious politics of burial; 7. 'Casting into the great crucible of the present ferment all manner of time-honoured traditions': new legislative contexts for twentieth-century burial; Part Two: 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

9. 'Being desirous of avoiding a burial board': the churchyard as cemetery10. 'Unobservable or inconspicuous to the casual visitor'?: the changing churchyard landscape; 11. 'Thoroughly untidy': changing burial culture, 1850-2007; Appendix One: Glossary; Appendix Two: Grave types: diagrams; Appendix Three: Sources for researching local burial history; Appendix Four: Sites included in the study; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526103536

1526103532

9781526103529

1526103524

OCLC:

962073504