Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed: the writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

At the end of the nineteenth century, more and more sepulchral monuments made of a durable material began to be erected in Finnish rural graveyards. The personal names inscribed on the monuments together with the dates of the deceased, epithets indicating their social status and biblical quotations...

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Publicado en:Mortality Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 173 - 195
Autor principal: Kotilainen, Sofia
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2013
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