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
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781501703478

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