Vanessa Harding.

Vanessa Harding. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670 fresh York: Cambridge University Press. 2002 Pp Xvi, 343 $6500 ISBN 0-521-81126-0

In this masterful main division Vanessa Harding showcases many years of research regarding management of death in early recent cities. Selecting, for designs of comparison, the two largest cities in northern Europe Harding focuses forward burials and funerals--the physical and social disposition of human remains. The period of consideration begins just before the Protestant Reformation and fall of the curtains with "the effective end of plague in

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