Making Space for the Dead

Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830

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The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial...
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Legacey, Erin-Marie
Titel
Making Space for the Dead
Uitgever
Cornell University Press
Jaar
2019
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
228
Gewicht
496 gr
EAN
9781501715594
Afmetingen
235 x 177 x 28 mm
Bindwijze
Hardback

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