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A stunning memoir exploring the realities of marriage, care-giving, how we die and how we grieve.

A stunning memoir exploring the realities of care-giving, family life and the art of dying.

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This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.

This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.

Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland.

Provides an introduction to the study of death and remembrance in the past. Focuses not only on material culture but also on theories of emotion and experience in the context of death.

This book provides an historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the present.

The Familiar Past" challenges the popular perception that archaeologists are people who dig up things from the prehistorical or classical world. A survey of material culture from 1500 to the present day, this collection demonstrates how its study can bring a new understanding to what we think of as the known past. In fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, the editors draw together current interpretive work explicitly influenced b...

An innovative 2007 study showing how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread ethic of improvement.

Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirations. In the last decades, the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement to undertake archaeological excavation of historical ...

In this innovative study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement, one of the most current concepts of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of...

Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland.