Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Afterlives

The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781501710698
• ISBN-10: 1501710699
• Artikelnr.: 48065505

Autorenporträt

Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: Imagining Mortality
1. Mors, A Critical Biography
2. Diagnosing Death
Part Two: Corporeal Revenants
3. Revenants, Resurrection, and Burnt Sacrifice
4. The Ancient Army of the Undead
5. Flesh and Bone: The Semiotics of Mortality
Part Three: The Disembodied Dead
6. Psychopomps, Oracles, and Spirit Mediums
7. Spectral Possession
Conclusion