Book: “Studi sul Cimitero monumentale di Pesaro”

A book that explores the Monumental cemetery of Pesaro as a cultural landmark, blending history, architecture, and collective memory.

About the book

The book "Studi sul Cimitero monumentale di Pesaro" (ISBN eBook 9791281782372), edited by Riccardo Paolo Uguccioni, offers a multidisciplinary exploration of Pesaro’s monumental cemetery, examining it not only as a burial site but as a layered cultural landmark where history, architecture, and social memory intersect.

Based on the contributions presented at the eponymous conference held on 16 October 2024 in Pesaro, the book highlights how the cemetery reflects the city’s evolving identity, commemorates notable figures, and embodies a heritage that bridges private remembrance with collective memory.

The digital edition of the book in Italian is available HERE.

Book: "Cementerios y migraciones"

A fascinating book by Celeste Castiglione about migration, memory, and burial spaces in Buenos Aires.

About the book

The book "Cementerios y migraciones: Memorias, espacios funerarios y otras historias de la provincia de Buenos Aires" by Celeste Castiglione delves into the history of migration in the province of Buenos Aires by examining the experience of death far from one’s homeland. 

Through the lens of cemeteries, she explores these spaces as unique sites where memory, identity, and cultural influences converge. These burial grounds serve as witnesses to social dynamics, revealing patterns, ruptures, and continuities that shape collective history.

Find out more at www.edunpaz.unpaz.edu.ar

Book: “Florence's English Cemetery, 1827-1877: Thunders of White Silence”

An overview of all the tombs at the English Cemetery in Florence and insight into its restoration.

About the book

We are pleased to announce the publication of a comprehensive new work, Florence's English Cemetery, 1827-1877: Thunders of White Silence, by Julia Bolton Holloway, the custodian of the English Cemetery in Florence for over two decades.

This 927-page volume, with a 53-page index, meticulously catalogs all existing and lost tombs of the English Cemetery in Florence (which is part of the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe), drawing from extensive archival records. The final chapter details the restoration of the cemetery and its beautiful iris garden—Florence's lily—a project carried out by Romanian Roma in Florence, who were taught literacy skills and the art of incising inscriptions on marble.

Book purchase

The book is available through Cambridge University Press, with a 25% discount for registered users. All royalties from the book will support the ongoing preservation of the cemetery.

Book: Ancient Greek Art and European Funerary Art

The book is edited by Evangelia Georgitsoyanni, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019

About the book

This collective volume consists of selected papers, presented at the ASCE Conference: “Ancient Greek Art and European Funerary Art” organized by the Harokopio University of Athens-Greece in 2017, aiming to highlight various cultural aspects of cemeteries.

Book can be obtained at this link.

Book: Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire

By Julie Rugg, Manchester University Press, 2013

About the book

This book explores for the first time the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts, and discloses the ways in which religious politics framed burial management. It presents an alternative history of burial which questions notions of tradition and modernity, and challenges long-standing assumptions about changing attitudes towards mortality in England.

This study diverges from the long-standing tendency to regard the churchyard as inherently 'traditional' and the cemetery as essentially 'modern'. Since 1850, both types of site have been subject to the influence of new expectations that burial space would guarantee family burial and the opportunity for formal commemoration. Although the population in central North Yorkshire declined, demand for burial space rose, meaning that many dozens of churchyards were extended, and forty new cemeteries were laid out.

*Source: Google Books