Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed
The writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15082102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sofia Kotilainen (0000-0002-4701-6785, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-194 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mortality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-6275 • E-ISSN: 1469-9885 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13576275.2013.787591 |
| OpenAlex | W1968672476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
At the end of the nineteenth century, more and more sepulchral monuments made of a durable material began to be erected in Finnish rural graveyards. The personal names inscribed on the monuments together with the dates of the deceased, epithets indicating their social status and biblical quotations were intended to reflect in written form the lives of the departed and remind those who come after them about the lives of the ancestors. I use a collective biographical method and databases to examine how sepulchral monuments represented the dead persons’ identities and life stories. I concentrate especially on the personal names inscribed on the monuments and analyse how they can be used as a source for ascertaining the nomenclature of the time and changes in ways that personal names were written. I consider in particular the role of improved literacy skills of the common people in this change. They were an important factor behind the creation of visible monuments and preserving the collective memory of the deceased person
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |