Death in Early New England: Rites, Rituals and Remembrance - Hardcover

Geake, Robert A

 
9781540257406: Death in Early New England: Rites, Rituals and Remembrance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1540257401 ISBN 13: 9781540257406
Publisher: History PR, 2023

Synopsis

Death in early New England came early and often during those harsh first decades of settlement.

Epidemics, hunger, accidents and childbirth contributed to a heavy toll in New England. Disease in some cases erased entire families, and almost always affected the majority of individuals in the communities. For most families, death was still a private affair. Traditions brought over with European customs and others that were strictly American were eventually interwoven, and these ceremonies, tokens and portraits of remembrance became part of these rites and rituals of mourning. Other forms of remembrance were carved into stone with heart-wrung epitaphs, the cause of death and brief biographies. Burial sites themselves evolved from family plots and church graveyards to public, garden-like cemeteries.

Historian Robert A. Geake explores the development of rites and rituals of death in this New World.

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Publisher
History PR
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1540257401
ISBN 13 
9781540257406
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
178

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ISBN 10:  1467154784 ISBN 13:  9781467154789
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