Cemeteries and the Decline of the Occult: From Ghosts to Memory in the Modern Age

Cemeteries and the Decline of the Occult: From Ghosts to Memory in the Modern Age

New places for the dead - cemeteries - were from the start understood as places of memory in which the undead and sleepless dead, ghosts and spirits did not abide. Anxieties about the public health problems of old burial grounds were born of a new interest to separate the dead from the living...

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Main Author: Thomas Laqueur
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2003-12-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5918
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spelling doaj-5875c28c22d447d1ac74680fbb9140002021-03-18T20:48:01ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2003-12-0114410.25365/oezg-2003-14-4-3Cemeteries and the Decline of the Occult: From Ghosts to Memory in the Modern AgeThomas Laqueur0University of California at Berkeley, Department of History New places for the dead - cemeteries - were from the start understood as places of memory in which the undead and sleepless dead, ghosts and spirits did not abide. Anxieties about the public health problems of old burial grounds were born of a new interest to separate the dead from the living; memory replaced the corpse as the placeholder for the deceased; a secular geography replaced a sacred one. The essay ends with the speculation that the popularity of the occult in late nineteenth century Europe might have been a response to the novel segregation of the dead. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5918
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title_short Cemeteries and the Decline of the Occult: From Ghosts to Memory in the Modern Age
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