Afterlives the return of the dead in the Middle Ages / [electronic resource] :
Nancy Mandeville Caciola.
- 2016 London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Imagining mortality -- Mors, a critical biography -- Diagnosing death -- Corporeal revenants -- Revenants, resurrection, and burnt sacrifice -- The hellequin and the burning ones -- Flesh and bone: the semiotics of mortality -- The disembodied dead -- Psychopomps, oracles, and spirit mediums -- Spectral possession.
9781501703478 1501703471
Future life--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500. Dead--Mythology--Europe. Death in popular culture--History--Europe--Middle Ages, 600-1500.