H-Death is a scholarly network that explores the multitude of historical issues surrounding the process and experience of dying and death. The H-Death network will allow scholars to compare and contrast the processes and experiences of dying and death across time and space, including American, European and non-Western contexts.
Recent Content
Avoiding Death in the Medieval.
Dear Death Historians,
A new free paper is now available to download, titled Plant Series, No. 8. MS408, Paris quadrifolia. The paper reveals some remarkable historic information about the use of the plant's toxins for treating conditions, diseases and infections. The plant also had religious significance due to its physical appearance, so it was believed to possess godly powers. This included salvation from death, which was a Medieval preoccupation.
New book announcement - A Lesser Species of Homicide: Death, Drivers and the Law
Kerry King, A Lesser Species of Homicide: Death, Drivers and the Law (UWA Publishing, 2020)
https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/a-lesser-species-of-homicide
Medicinal Plant Paper, No. 7. Available.
To: History of Death Group.
New Book Announcement: Death At the Edges of Empire
by Shannon Bontrager
Shannon Bontrager, Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020). https://t.e2ma.net/webview/7c59hc/8ae525d39bd4c67b1ebd2ecdb3446e31
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/JnRnLwLA7Yk
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