The dead and the living in Paris and London, 1500-1670 / Vanessa Harding

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Contents: London and Paris, the setting of life and death -- 'Lamentable pinfoulds of the deaths of men': parish churchyards and churchyard burial -- Innocents and outcasts: civic and non-parochial churchyards -- 'Making churches charnel-houses': the constraints of church burial -- 'A fine and private place': burial chapels, vaults, and tombs -- 'Meet and convenient for my estate and degree': funeral conventions and choices -- 'The whole profit of the funeralls': commercialisation and consumption -- 'The last love and ceremony': funerals, community and civic identity