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

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Rugg, Julie, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xv, 427 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781526103529
1526103524

Other title:

Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire [Portion of title]

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Churchyard and cemetery.DDC classification:

393.1094284 23

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GT3244.N67 R84 2013eb

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Summary: Julie Rugg explores 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-416) and index.

Julie Rugg explores 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.

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