Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

1. Introduction
Shane McCorristine

2. Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy
Mary Ann Lund

3. “A Candidate for Immortality”: Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose
Rachel Bennett

4. Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
Veronique Deblon, Kaat Wils

5. Premature Burial and the Undertakers
Brian Parsons

6. The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany
Caroline Sharples

7. Death’s Impossible Date
Douglas J. Davies

8. The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life
Elizabeth Wicks

9. The Last Moment
Jonathan Rée

10. Afterword
Thomas W. Laqueur

Keywords: History, Cultural History, Social History, History of Science, Crime and Society, Philosophy of Science