Funerary arts and tomb cult : living with the dead in France, 1750-1870 /

Funerary arts and tomb cult : living with the dead in France, 1750-1870 /

Finely produced in a traditional scholarly style, this book takes an academic art historian's look at a subject that has some interest for general readers as well. Western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries looks familiar to contemporary readers in many ways. One of the ways it d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindsay, Suzanne G., 1947- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub., [2012], ♭2012
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : c2012
Farnham, Surrey, England : [2012]
Subjects:
1700 - 1899
1700-1899
1700-talet
1800-talet
18th century
19th century
Burial > France > History
Sepulchral monuments > France > History
Burial
History
Manners and customs
Sepulchral monuments
France > Social life and customs > 18th century
France > Social life and customs > 19th century
France
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Revisiting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French tombs
  • Reforming funerary cult in France, 1750-1870
  • Eighteenth-century France: rethinking sculpture and the body
  • The Bonchamps project: reinventing the effigy tomb
  • Louis-Philippe's tombs: burying a modern royal family
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse I: a tomb for Napoléon
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse II: the Cavaignac tomb
  • Introduction: Revisiting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French tombs
  • Reforming funerary cult in France, 1750-1870
  • Eighteenth-century France: rethinking sculpture and the body
  • The Bonchamps project: reinventing the effigy tomb
  • Louis-Philippe's tombs: burying a modern royal family
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse I: a tomb for Napoléon
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse II: the Cavaignac tomb
  • Reforming funerary cult in France 1750-1870
  • Eighteenth-century France: rethinking sculpture and the body
  • The Bonchamps project: reinventing the effigy tomb
  • Louis-Philippe's tombs: burying a modern royal family
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse I: a tomb for Napoléon
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse II: the Cavaignac tomb
  • Reforming funerary cult in France 1750-1870
  • Eighteenth-century France: rethinking sculpture and the body
  • The Bonchamps project: reinventing the effigy tomb
  • Louis-Philippe's tombs: burying a modern royal family
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse I: a tomb for Napoléon
  • The poetics of the exhumed corpse II: the Cavaignac tomb

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