Death and Dying by John F. Szabo

Author:John F. Szabo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780810872769
Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Historical Views of Death and Dying

1448. Bardis, Panos Demetrios. History of Thanatology: Philosophical, Religious, Psychological, and Sociological Ideas Concerning Death from Primitive Times to the Present. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1981.

Bardis, editor of social science and professor of sociology at the University of Toledo, notes in the preface that this book evolved from a paper he presented at the Conference Internationale de Sociologie Religieuse in Venice, Italy, in August 1979. It is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and sociohistorical study of death. His introduction indicates the book’s purpose is to “explain, evaluate, and synthesize the most important ideas, from primitive times to the present, about death.” In the text, Bardis offers a definition of death, historical views on death from the Far East to Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece and Rome. He includes narrative on attitudes and views toward death in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Includes a brief bibliography and a general index.

1449. Barley, Nigel. Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death around the World. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Originally published as Dancing on the Grave in Great Britain.

British anthropologist Barley views death as a mirror to civilization in this witty tour of death customs around the world.

1450. Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross. Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgment, and Remembrance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. Part of the Library of Medieval Civilization, Joan Evans and Christopher Brooke, editors.

In the General Editor’s Preface, Brooke notes that this text is part of a “revival and revision” of the 1966 Thames & Hudson book The Flowering of the Middle Ages, in which each chapter has been converted into a volume such as this one. Boase expands the original work into an exploration of death themes in the Middle Ages, mostly through an examination of Medieval art and architecture. Includes the foreword to the original edition, a select bibliography, and an extensive list of illustrations.

1451. Bremer, J. M., Theo P. J. Van Den Hout, and Rudolph Peters. Hidden Futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical, and Arabic-Islamic World. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 1994.

1452. Colman, Penny. Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

1453. Comper, Frances M. M., ed. Ars Morendi: The Book of the Craft of Dying and Other Early English Tracts Concerning Death. New York: Arno Press, 1976. The tracts are taken from manuscripts and printed books in the British Museum and Bodleian Library. First edition published by Longmans, Green & Company, London, in 1917.

1454. Curl, James Stevens. The Victorian Celebration of Death. New York: Gale, 1972. Also published by David & Charles, London, and Partridge Press, Detroit, in 1972.

With this survey of Victorian approaches and attitudes toward death, Curl writes about funeral rites and ceremonies during this period as well as tombs, mausoleums, cemeteries, and gravestones.

1455. Davey, Richard. A History of Mourning. London: Jay’s, 1890.

1456. Davies, Douglas James. A Brief History of Death. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Davies notes that our interest in death is “infused with emotion, whether

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