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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caciola, Nancy, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jenseitsglaube
Jenseits
Sterben
Tod > Motiv
Tod
Dead > Mythology.
HISTORY > Medieval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
15.70 history of Europe.
deaths.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Mort.
Morts > Mythologie > Europe.
Attitude to Death
Death
Death > Psychological aspects.
Death.
Future life > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Dead > Mythology > Europe.
Death in popular culture > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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