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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Koudounaris, Paul.
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Ossuaries -- History.
Tombs -- History.
Death -- Social aspects -- History.
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The empire of death ...
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The empire of death : a cultural history of ossuaries and charnel houses / Paul Koudounaris.
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Koudounaris, Paul.
New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Subjects
Ossuaries -- History.
Tombs -- History.
Death -- Social aspects -- History.
ISBN:
9780500251782 :
0500251789
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224 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 32 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: a dialogue with death -- Ars Moriendi: The early charnel houses -- The golden age: Counter-reformation macabre -- The triumph of death: nineteenth-century visions in bone -- Heavenly souls: spiritualism and mythology in the bone pile -- Forget me not: ossuaries as commemorative sites -- Resurrecting the dead: conservation and reconstruction.
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