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Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages / Nancy Mandeville Caciola.

By: Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016Publisher: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501703478
  • 1501703471
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Afterlives.DDC classification:
  • 306.9 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1073.5.E85 C33 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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