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The Corpse as Text: Disinterment and Antiquarian Enquiry, 1700-1900

The Corpse as Text: Disinterment and Antiquarian Enquiry, 1700-1900

Tomaini, Thea

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General MusicGeneral World HistoryBritish History

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ISBN10: 1783271949
ISBN13: 9781783271948
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Apr 21 2017
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past.

Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism, the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English culture and its language. In particular, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries. They constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. These 'texts' accompanied and enhanced the traditional texts of chronicle, literature, and epitaph.

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