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Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Steinplatz 2
99085 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Ordering the Dead? Urban Burials in London and Munich, c. 1550-1870
The project focuses on two important urban centres of the early modern period, London and Munich, in order to analyse the profound changes in the treatment of dead bodies during the period. The comparison between Munich and London makes it possible to look at the dynamics of the re-location of the dead and the associated ideas about urban space and society in a comparative perspective. Through a comparative look at the Anglican commercial metropolis of London and Catholic Munich, a small town by comparison, it is possible to ask how the cities changed as a result of the reorganisation of the dead during this period and how confessional and urban factors influenced each other in the process.
One of the central theses of the project is that the importance of the dead for the cities can only be properly understood if the dead are analysed in their entirety and thus the entire urban necrogeography is examined. This approach means a reconstruction of "Deathscapes", which bring together diverse burial sites that have previously been considered separately. This includes urban, courtly, Jewish or dishonourable burial spaces. In doing so, the project sheds light on the different discourses, groups of actors, practices and spaces that played an important role in the reordering of the dead. The project also examines conflicts between different actors and disruptions in the treatment of the dead, for example during plague epidemics or the Great Fire (1666). The project shows that how town magistrates, clerics and courtly actors dealt with the dead can tell us much about urban societies as a whole. In order to conceptualise this change, the project works with Michel Foucault's concept of power and uses an adaptation of biopower, which shows that control over the dead was always linked to control over the living.
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