Graveyards

A History of Living with the Dead by Roger Luckhurst
An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Blending history, art, literature and popular culture, Graveyards explores the various different aspects of the treatment of the dead. Chapters range from early burials and the emergence of necropolises and catacombs, to grave-robbing, garden cemeteries and the perilous overcrowding of the urban dead, to monuments for deceased heroes and rulers and the development of modern memorial culture.