First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind’s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. T
How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were pre
This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book ch