Afterlives [electronic resource] :the return of the dead in the Middle Ages / Nancy Mandeville Caciola.
By: Caciola, Nancy [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookPublisher: 2016 2015); London : Cornell University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781501703478; 1501703471.Subject(s): Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Dead -- Mythology -- Europe | Death in popular culture -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500Genre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available: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.
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