Author: F. Jewell
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Bishop of Berry Brow
Author: F. Jewell
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Sword and the trowel; ed. by C.H. Spurgeon
Author: London metrop. tabernacle
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Pages : 654
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The Life and Letters of the Rev. William Smiley of the Irish Methodist Conference
Author: Smiley
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Pages : 266
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The Work of the Dead
Author: Thomas W. Laqueur
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400874513
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 745
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The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400874513
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 745
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The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository
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Pages : 754
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Pages : 754
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Sermons [ed. by W. Arthur].
Author: William Morley Punshon
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Pages : 516
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The Hallam Succession
Author: Amelia E. Barr
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Gilbert Guestling, Or, The Story of a Hymnbook
Author: James Yeames
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Little Abe, Or, the Bishop of Berry Brow Being the Life of Abraham Lockwood
Author: Jewell F
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318852093
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318852093
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Little Abe: or, The bishop of Berry Brow, being the life of A. Lockwood
Author: F. Jewell
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Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Pages : 242
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