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...
Main Author: | Thomas Laqueur |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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StudienVerlag
2003-12-01
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Series: | Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften |
Online Access: | https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5918 |
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