Faces of death : visualising history / edited by Andrea Pető and Klaartje Schrijvers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

La douleur est physique / Klaartje Schrijvers -- Death and the picture : representation of war criminals and construction of a divided memory about World War II in Hungary / Andrea Pető -- Photographical representation of death in historiography : examples from the German occupation of Norway / Synne Corell -- "Death shall have no dominion" : Dutch flood disasters in the press / Jose de Kruif -- Photography as source : the changing representation of the image of mafia women by the Italian press / Alice de Toni -- The faces of Kartini and Anne Frank : the death of the author in Dutch history / Berteke Waaldijk -- The dramatisation of death in the second half of the 19th century : the Paris morgue and anatomy painting / Mireia Ferre Álvarez -- Images of the dead in the Middles Ages : the capitals of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice / Claudia Bertazzo -- Facing death on the sea : ex-voto paintings of Northern Adriatic sailing ships in the 19th century / Tea Mayhew.