The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 19c Belgium
De Spiegeleer, C. 2017
‘Challenging the societal death system: the development of a secularist funerary culture in nineteenth-century Belgium’, Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 95:4, 875-916.
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De Spiegeleer, C. 2019
‘The cemetery as symbolic battlefield in the Belgian “Kulturkampf”. Political and religious controversies surrounding cemetery management’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 227-34.
De Spiegeleer, C. 2019
‘The cemetery as symbolic battlefield in the Belgian “Kulturkampf”. Political and religious controversies surrounding cemetery management’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 227-34.
De Spiegeleer, C. & Tyssens, J. 2017
‘Secularizing funerary culture in nineteenth-century Belgium: a product of political and religious controversy’, Death Studies, 41: 1, 14-21.
Deflorenne, X. 2016
‘La formation du cimetière contemporain en Belgique’ in R. Bertrand & A. Carol (eds) Aux Origines des Cimetières Contemporains: Les Réformes Funéraires de L’Europe Occidentale XVIIe-XIXe siècle, Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Province, 239-256.
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Gijbels, J. 2018
‘Reassessing the pauper burial: the disposal of corpses in nineteenth-century Brussels’, Mortality, 23:2, 184-198.
Tyssens, J. 2017
‘Working class children, death and secularity: Belgium in the 1890s’, Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 95:4, 917-36.
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Witte, E. 2003
‘The battle for monasteries, cemeteries and schools: Belgium’ in C. Clark & W. Kaiser (eds) Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 102-128.
