Afterlives : : The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages / / Nancy Mandeville Caciola.
Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations are...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One: Imagining Mortality
- 1. Mors , A Critical Biography
- 2. Diagnosing Death
- Part Two: Corporeal Revenants
- 3. Revenants, Resurrection, and Burnt Sacrifice 4. The Ancient Army of the Undead
- 4. The Ancient Army of the Undead
- 5. Flesh and Bone: The Semiotics of Mortality
- Part Three: The Disembodied Dead
- 6. Psychopomps, Oracles, and Spirit Mediums
- 7. Spectral Possession
- Conclusion
- Index