Joachim Waley - Mirrors Of Mortality: Social Studies in the History of Death

C.A. Bayly is Fellow and Tutor of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has published various articles on Indian politics and society and is the author of The Local Roots of Indian Politics. Allahabad, 18801920 (1975). He is at present completing a study of the towns and trading communities of north India and has recently been appointed an editor of the New Cambridge History of India.

David Cannadine read history at Clare College, Cambridge, and received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1975. He is now Fellow of Christ's College and Lecturer in history in the University of Cambridge. He has contributed to a wide range of Journals and his Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 17751967 appeared in 1980.

R. C. Finucane held a Leverhulme Fellowship in the University of Oxford in 1970 and a research fellowship in the Medieval Centre, Reading University from 1973 to 1976. His Miracles and Pilgrims: popular Beliefs in Medieval England was published in 1977.

Paul S. Fritz is Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada, and co-editor of the Publications of the McMaster University Association of 18th Century Studies. His book The English Ministers and Jacobitism Between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 appeared in 1975.

David Irwin is Reader in the History of Art and Head of Department at the University of Aberdeen. His books include: English Neoclassical Art (1966),Winckelmann: Writings on Art (1972),Scottish Painters: At Home and Abroad 17001900 (co-author with his wife, 1975), and most recently John Flaxman: Sculptor, Illustrator, Designer (1979).

John McManners is Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include: French Ecclesiastical Society and the Ancien Regime: A Study of Angers in the 18th Century (1960), Lectures on European History 17891914: Men, Machines and Freedom (1966), TheFrench Revolution and the Church (1969) and Church and State in France 18701914 (1972).

Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood graduated from Athens University and received her doctorate from the University of Oxford. She held various academic appointments in Oxford and Liverpool and is the author of Theseus as Son and Stepson. A Tentative Illustration of the Greek Mythological Mentality (1979). She has now given up academic life to write plays and detective stories.

Joachim Whaley was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he held a Fellowship in History from 1976 to 1978. He is now a Fellow of Robinson College and lectures on German history in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. He is currently writing a history of religious toleration in north Germany in the eighteenth Century.