Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Preface; M.Johnson - Introduction; P.C.Jupp - Expressions of Loss in Early Seventeenth-Century England; C.Gittings - 'A Kind of Lawful Adultery': English Attitudes to the Remarriage of Widows 1500-1800; S.Collins - The Funeral Trade in Hanoverian England 1714-1760; J.Litten - Memento Mori: the Function and Meaning of Breton Ossuaries 1450-1750; E.Musgrave - The Green Ground; J.Pinfold - Enon Chapel: No Way for the Dead; P.C.Jupp - The Origins and Progress of Cemetery Establishment in Britain; J.Rugg - The Professionalisation of the Funeral Industry; G.Howarth - Hindu Cremations in Britain; S.White - Changing English Attitudes to Death in the Two World Wars; A.Wilkinson - The Death of a King: Elvis Presley 1935-1977; C.King - Actuarial Visions of Death: Life, Death and Chance in the Modern World; L.Prior - Index