Pub Date: March 1, 1998
Dewey: 929.5
LCCN: 97028232
Lexile Code: 0000
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 9.34" L x 6.25" W ( 1.15 lbs) 184 pages
BISAC Categories:
Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural and Social | History | Europe | Medieval | Customs and Traditions | Death and Dying | Reference | Genealogy and Heraldry
Description: Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing--on tombstones, monuments, scrolls, books, posters--to commemorate the dead from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.