Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards [electronic resource].

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Cover -- Title -- Ccopyright -- End User License Agreement -- Contents -- Preface -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- SCOPE -- RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- Aims -- Objectives -- Social, Economic, and Cultural Factors -- Religiosity -- Spatiality -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Study Area -- ENGLAND -- OXFORD -- YORK -- St. Deny -- Holy Trinity -- St. Olave -- SCARBOROUGH -- St. Mary's -- SCOTLAND -- INVERNESS -- Old High -- DUNBAR -- Dunbar Parish -- EDINBURGH -- Canongate -- Greyfriars -- St. Cuthbert -- CONCLUSION

CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Research Methods -- SITE METHODS -- Site Sampling -- Incorporating Other Influences -- City and Town Sampling -- FIELD METHODS -- Photographic Analysis -- DATA ANALYSIS -- Statistical Methods -- OTHER APPROACHES -- AN ONLINE DATABASE -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Geometric Properties: Shape -- INTRODUCTION -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Geometric Properties: Dimensions and Social Status -- INTRODUCTION -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- Headstone Size Variability

Standardisation of Headstone Size -- The Northerly and Temporal Increase in Headstone Size -- Decreasing Headstone Size with Age at Death -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Mortality, Salvation, and Remembrance Motifs -- INTRODUCTION -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- Locality and Temporal Factors -- Popular Motifs -- Introduction of New Motifs -- Motifed versus Unmotifed Headstones -- Motif Seriation -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Inscriptions: Introductions -- INTRODUCTION -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION

Spatial Distribution and Variation of Headstone Introductions -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Inscriptions and Fonts -- INTRODUCTION -- Inscriptions -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- Location and Font Variation -- Socioeconomic Influences on Font Use -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Influences on Epitaphs -- INTRODUCTION -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- Epitaph Length over Time -- Economic Influences -- Religious Influences -- Social Influences -- Epitaph Length and Headstone Size -- Mortality, Salvation, and Remembrance Influences on Epitaphs

The Motif-to-Epitaph Progression -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Conclusion -- SUMMARY -- LIMITATIONS -- Site Maps -- Church Records -- Photographs -- A Gap in the Record -- Weathering Issues -- Sample Size -- Research Resources -- FUTURE STUDIES -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- References -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: HEADSTONE DETAILS FOR ENGLAND, UK -- APPENDIX B: HEADSTONE DETAILS FOR SCOTLAND, UK -- Subject Index -- Back Cover

This interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical-cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change - of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical rec.

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