‘In sure and certain hope…’: Church of England funeral rites from the Tudors to Today
If you have ever attended a Church of England funeral you will probably have heard the words ‘In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life’ – either at the graveside while earth is being thrown onto the coffin or as the curtains close around the coffin at a Crematorium. They point to…
‘Two Years of Sable Gloom’: The Stages of Victorian Mourning
Chris Woodyard The two years of the title is often cited as the required time for a widow to mourn for her husband – there’s a popular trope that all Victorian widows wore full black with crape veils for two solid years. The reality is much more nuanced, depending on the year and the etiquette…
Archaeology of Coffins & Shrouds in Colonial North America
In case you missed very interesting discussion on Oct 9th 2023, Grave Matters has asked me to prepare a blog post of my talk! I’m Robyn Lacy, a PhD Candidate in historical archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. My research focuses on 17th-century burial grounds and burial landscape development in the colonial northeast…
Conservation as Consolation: trees and elegy in Wordsworth’s ‘The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome’
Trees and elegies are, in many ways, alike. Both are structures of idiosyncratic complexity, connected to others of their kind in communicating networks which only an enthusiastic excavator can detect. Given that both are connected in the cultural imagination with death and with ideas of legacy, it is no surprise that elegy is a literary…
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