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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Published in:Mortality Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 173 - 195
Main Author: Kotilainen, Sofia
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2013
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