Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages /
Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations are...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
2016
Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : 2016 ©2016 |
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| Summary: | Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations are evident in the widespread popularity of stories about the returned dead, who interacted with the living both as disembodied spirits and as living corpses or revenants. This book explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year 1000 |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations, maps 1 online resource (pages cm.) : 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1501703463 1501703471 9781501703461 9781501703478 (e-book) 9781501703478 |
| Access: | Access restricted by licensing agreement Project MUSE Multi-User |