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  • Funeral Customs

    by Bertram S. Puckle ...
    iT was a bit surprising to realize a lot of this information is still being used in modern publishings. Mainly it was focused on customs from the United Kingdom but Bertram Puckle does a wonderful job of covering customs from around the world as well. He did a wonderful job of researching the history and it was a fascinating read though some are hard to validiate. ... Read more

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  • Funeral Customs

    Their Origin and Development

    by Bertram S. Puckle ...
    First published in 1926, Bertram S. Puckle's “Funeral Customs” is a comprehensive account of traditional funerary traditions and customs throughout history and from all over the world. From lost ancient practices to the first graveyards and cemeteries, this volume sheds light on how we as humans have dealt with death and the dead over the ages. Contents include: “The Provisions Of Nature”, “Death ... Read more

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  • Funeral Customs Their Origin And Development

    by Bertram S. Puckle ...
    AN exhaustive treatise on funeral customs, ancient and modern, has yet to be written. Leaving to the theologian and philosopher the thankless task of assigning the mystery of death its proper place and functions in the scheme of creation, the writer has confined himself to a general survey of those practices which surround the physical fact of death, a subject which is as immense as it is ... Read more

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  • Funeral Customs

    by Bertram S. Puckle ...
    Funeral Customsby Bertram S. Puckle"A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor. These customs vary widely between cultures, and between religious affiliations within cultures. In some cultures the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • A Book of Folk-Lore

    by Sabine Baring-Gould ...
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  • Historical Lectures and Essays

    by Charles Kingsley ...
    Let me begin this lecture {1} with a scene in the North Atlantic 863 years since. ... Read more

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  • St Cuthbert's Corpse

    A Life After Death

    by David Willem ...
    The miracle of St Cuthbert's incorrupt corpse has been the subject of much fascination since his death over thirteen-hundred years ago, inspiring pilgrims, monks, and even the construction of Durham Cathedral itself. Throughout the centuries, Cuthbert's coffin has been opened on six occasions. For the first time, accounts of these openings have been brought together in a single volume, providing a ... Read more

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  • On something

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    It is with the drama as with plastic art and many other things: the plain man feels that he has a right to put in his word, but he is rather afraid that the art is beyond him, and he is frightened by technicalities. ... Read more

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  • Oxford

    City and University

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile ... Read more

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  • Oxford: Story of the City and the University

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again by their successive owners. Oxford, though not one of the most ancient of English cities, shows, more legibly than the rest, the handwriting, as it were, of many generations. The convenient site among the interlacing waters of the Isis and the Cherwell has commended itself to men in one age after another. ... Read more

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  • Oxford

    by Andrew Lang ...
    These papers do not profess even to sketch the outlines of a history of Oxford. They are merely records of the impressions made by this or that aspect of the life of the University as it has been in different ages. Oxford is not an easy place to design in black and white, with the pen or the etcher's needle. On a wild winter or late autumn day (such as Father Faber has made permanent in a ... Read more

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