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The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris (Hardcover, 2011)

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In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This book brings together the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy and the skull-encrusted columns of the ossuary in Evora in Portugal, to the strange tomb of a wealthy 1960s Peruvian nobleman, decorated with the exhumed skeletons of his Spanish ancestors. Illustrated with specially taken photographs of sites rarely open to the public and forgotten archive images of others long destroyed, this mesmerising, shocking and deeply moving book is an essential memento mori for our modern age.

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ISBN-139780500251782
eBay Product ID (ePID)109237324

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Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameThe Empire of Death: a Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorPaul Koudounaris
FormatHardcover

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Item Weight1560 g
Item Width225 mm

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Title_AuthorPaul Koudounaris

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