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" The history and politics of exhumation : "
Michael L. Nash.
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BL
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862581
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Nash, Michael L.
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The history and politics of exhumation : : royal bodies and lesser mortals /\ Michael L. Nash.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages)
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3030240479
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: 9783030240479
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9783030240462
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Royal Bodies and Lesser Mortals; Chapter 3: Retribution and Reparation; Chapter 4: Identity & Investigation: I; Chapter 5: Identity & Investigation: II; Chapter 6: A Gothic Cult; Chapter 7: The Odour of Sanctity; Chapter 8: Royal Requiem; Chapter 9: Law Sacred and Secular; Chapter 10: Reasons Many and Various; Appendix; Dates of Exhumations (Not Definitive); Works Relating to Specific Exhumations; Glossary; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; General; Index
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This book argues that a serious, scholarly study on exhumation is long overdue. Examining more well-known cases, such as that of Richard III, the Romanovs, and Tutankhamen, alongside the more obscure, Michael Nash explores the motivations beyond exhumation, from retribution to repatriation. Along the way, he explores the influence of Gothic fiction in the eighteenth century, the notoriety of the Resurrection Men in the nineteenth century, and the archeological heyday of the twentieth century.
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Exhumation-- History.
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Exhumation.
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363.7/5
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RA637
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