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Death

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Mainly deaths of humans but may include other species. Meanings and rituals associated with death. Disposal of dead bodies by burial or otherwise.

Basic data

Subclass of: Social and cultural
Religion
Military
Demography
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Subclasses

 Description
ProbateProving of wills and administration of intestate estates.

Query for sources

 Description
Beale - War Widows (thesis, 2018)Stewart John Beale, The experiences of war widows during and after the British civil wars, with particular reference to the Midlands (Ph.D. thesis, University of Leicester, 2018).
Brady - English Funerary Elegies (thesis, 2003)A. Brady, English funerary elegies, 1620-1650 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003).
Jennings - Anatomy of a Civil War Plague (Midland History, 2015)Stuart B. Jennings, 'The Anatomy of a Civil War Plague in a Rural Parish: East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, 1646', Midland History 40/2 (2015), pp. 201-219.
Jennings - Miserable, Stinking, Infected Town (Midland History, 2003)Stuart B. Jennings, 'A Miserable, Stinking, Infected Town: Pestilence, Plague and Death in a Civil War Garrison, Newark 1640-1649', Midland History 28/1 (2003), pp. 51-70.
Llewellyn - John Weever (thesis, 1983)Nigel Graham Llewellyn, John Weever and English funeral monuments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1983).
Taylor - War, Death and Burial (thesis, 2019)Sarah Taylor, 'War, death and burial? : a historical investigation into the disposal of the dead at English battles fought in Britain, 1401-1685' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2019).
Young - Sir Richard Astley's Troop (JSAHR, 1960)Peter Young, 'The Old Troop: Sir Richard Astley at the Head of His Troop', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 38/153 (1960), pp. 10-12. About funeral monument of Sir Richard Astley showing his horse troop. Also notes on some other monuments.