Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caciola, Nancy, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Temas:
600-1500
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
Morts > Mythologie > Europe.
Mort.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
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
Dead > Mythology
Tod
Tod > Motiv
Sterben
Jenseits
Jenseitsglaube
Europe
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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