Quotes by Catharine Arnold

About Catharine Arnold:

Catharine Arnold is a British author, journalist and academic, best known for her 'London' series of five popular history books: Necropolis: London and Its Dead, Bedlam: London and its mad and City of Sin: London and its vices. Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City 2012 and Globe Life in Shakespeare's London 2015). Catharine Arnold read English at Girton College Cambridge and holds a post-graduate degree in psychology.
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The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls Neolithic beliefs that certain human remains possessed supernatural properties. It was believe...

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The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if no...

Catharine Arnold

Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that w...

Catharine Arnold

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

Catharine Arnold

Author Bio

  • NameCatharine Arnold
  • ProfessionJournalist