Caciola, Nancy, 1963-

Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages / Nancy Mandeville Caciola. - 1 online resource.

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

22573/ctt18kt4pc JSTOR


Death in popular culture--History--Europe--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Dead--Mythology--Europe.
Future life--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
HISTORY / Medieval


Electronic books.

HQ1073.5.E85 / C33 2016eb

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