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The Empire of Death : A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses: Koudounaris, Paul: BOOKS KINOKUNIYA
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The Empire of Death : A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
The Empire of Death : A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
By Koudounaris, Paul
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Published Date : 2011/10
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN : 9780500251782

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Book Description
Source： ENG
Place of Publication： Great Britain
Subject Development： History
Academic Level： Undergraduate
Geographic Designator： Western Europe
Review：
PW Annex Reviews
PW Reviews 2012 January #5
Table of Contents
 
Introduction: A Dialogue with Death                9  (8)
    I Ars Moriendi: The Early Charnel Houses       17 (32)
    II The Golden Age: Counter-Reformatio          49 (40)
    Macabre
    III The Triumph of Death:                      89 (40)
    Nineteenth-Century Visions in Bone
    IV Heavenly Souls: Spiritualism and            129(24)
    Mythology in the Bone Pile
    V Forget Me Not: Ossuaries as Commemorative    153(32)
    Sites
    VI Resurrecling the Dead: Conservation and     185(24)
    Reconstruction
List of Sites                                      209(3)
Notes                                              212(7)
Index                                              219(5)
Acknowledgments                                    224