Table of contents

1. Unusual Death and Memorialization
2. Contents
3. Illustrations
4. Introduction — In Search of the Unusual in Early Modern and Modern Burial Traditions: Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Väre, and Ulla Moilanen
5. Part I — Memorials, Graveyards, Epidemics: Inequality, Disease, and Sudden Death
6. Chapter 1 — Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo’s Old Cemeteries
7. Chapter 2 — Reactions to Tragedy: Familial and Community Memorials to Sudden Occupational Deaths in Britain and Ireland
8. Chapter 3 — Memory of Epidemic Diseases in Finland: Old Disease Cemeteries and Modern Urban Planning
9. Chapter 4 — Freethinkers’ Cemeteries and Local Secular Burial Culture in Fnland
10. Part II — Peculiar Burial Places
11. Chapter 5 — Death during Retreat: The Burials of Carolean Soldiers in Jämtland and Trondelag (Sweden and Norway)
12. Chapter 6 — Taken to the Island: Temporary Burials in Early and Late Modern Periods in Finnish Periphery
13. Part III — Memories and Folklore of Unusual Death
14. Chapter 7 — “On the Apparitions of Drowned Men”: Folklore and the Memory of Unnatural Death at Haffjardarey, Western Iceland
15. Chapter 8 — Death Lives with Us: Witchcraft on the East Coast of Bothnian Bay during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
16. Part IV — Unusual Cause of Death
17. Chapter 9 — The Cause of Death—Arsenic or Mercury?: Investigation of Human Remains from Entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (Sixteenth–Early Seventeenth Century)
18. Chapter 10 — Sawed Skulls: Archaeological Evidence of Medicolegal Autopsies in Finland
19. Afterword
20. Index