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Author Caciola, Nancy, 1963- author.

Title Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages / Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016
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Contents Imagining mortality -- Mors, a critical biography -- Diagnosing death -- Corporeal revenants -- Revenants, resurrection, and burnt sacrifice -- The ancient army of the undead -- Flesh and bone: the semiotics of mortality -- The disembodied dead -- Psychopomps, oracles, and spirit mediums -- Spectral possession
Summary 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 evident in the widespread popularity of stories about the returned dead, who interacted with the living both as disembodied spirits and as living corpses or revenants. This book explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year 1000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Death in popular culture -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Dead -- Mythology -- Europe
Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Death.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death
Attitude to Death
deaths.
15.70 history of Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Death -- Psychological aspects
Death
Dead -- Mythology
Tod
Tod Motiv
Sterben
Jenseits
Jenseitsglaube
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019724673
ISBN 9781501703461
1501703463
9781501703478
1501703471