Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages / / Patrick J. Geary.
Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 8 halftones |
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