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The English Way of Death

The Common Funeral since 1450

by Julian Litten

A history of English funerals from the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century, covering coffins, shrouds, undertakers, processions and mourning. Litten's background in museum work makes the material culture of death unusually vivid.

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