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