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    The empire of death : a cultural history of ossuaries and charnel houses / Paul Koudounaris.
    by Koudounaris, Paul.
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    New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
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  • Ossuaries -- History.
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  • Tombs -- History.
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  • Death -- Social aspects -- History.
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    9780500251782 :
    0500251789
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    224 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 32 cm.
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    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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