The social anthropology of death 21 Cross-cultural generalizations and the New
Archaeology's search for middle range theory 27 Funerary practices: agency, power and …

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other
English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including …

The main themes of the thesis are burial customs and social identities, and how medieval
and post-Reformation graves can provide information on such as age structures, phases in …

Like other groups with dangerous occupations, mariners have developed a close-knit
culture bound by loss and memory. Death regularly disrupts the fabric of this culture and …

Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places
across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable …

Departing from the widespread importance in the Portuguese and Castilian territories, from
the 14th to the 19th centuries, of the morgado (entail), a specific Iberian form to frame …

This significant and innovative collection explores the changing piety of townspeople and
villagers before, during, and after the Reformation. It brings together leading and new …

Nautical archaeology has made remarkable advances since its inception half a century ago,
but one area in need of more attention is the examination of cultural aspects of seafaring …

This book overturns some traditional narratives about the process of industrialisation in
England. It does so by exploring a seemingly familiar–indeed prototypical–'industrial …

It is often suggested that only a fairly small percentage of the buried population was
commemorated on stones before the 19th century. However, there has been little empirical …