Unusual Death and Memorialization : : Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North / / ed. by Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Tiina Väre, Ulla Moilanen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Borisovich Borzakov, Sergey,; Dmitrievna Panova, Tatiana,; Helamaa, Maija,; Hoffman, Sarah,; Hramco, Constantin,; Jonsson, Kristina,; Kallio-Seppä, Titta,; Kemppainen, Ilona,; Lehto, Heli,; Liira, Anne-Mari,; Lipkin, Sanna,; Moilanen, Ulla,; Mytum, Harold,; Núñez, Milton,; Tranberg, Annemari,; Uotila, Kari,; Väre, Tiina,; Yurievich Dmitriev, Andrey,
• HerausgeberIn: Ruohonen, Juha,; Salo, Kati,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Tables
• Introduction. In Search of the Unusual in Early Modern and Modern Burial Traditions
• Part I. Memorials, Graveyards, Epidemics: Inequality, Disease, and Sudden Death
• 1. Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo’s Old Cemeteries
• 2. Reactions to Tragedy: Familial and Community Memorials to Sudden Occupational Deaths in Britain and Ireland
• 3. Memory of Epidemic Diseases in Finland: Old Disease Cemeteries and Modern Urban Planning
• 4. Freethinkers’ Cemeteries and Local Secular Burial Culture in Finland
• Part II. Peculiar Burial Places
• 5. Death during Retreat: The Burials of Carolean Soldiers in Jämtland and Trøndelag (Sweden and Norway)
• 6. Taken to the Island: Temporary Burials in Early and Late Modern Periods in Finnish Periphery
• Part III. Memories and Folklore of Unusual Death
• 7. “On the Apparitions of Drowned Men”: Folklore and the Memory of Unnatural Death at Haffjarðarey, Western Iceland
• 8. Death Lives with Us: Witchcraft on the East Coast of Bothnian Bay during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Part IV. Unusual Cause of Death
• 9. The Cause of Death—Arsenic or Mercury? Investigation of Human Remains from Entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (Sixteenth–Early Seventeenth Century)
• 10. Sawed Skulls: Archaeological Evidence of Medicolegal Autopsies in Finland
• Afterword
• Index