Afterlives
Subtitle: the return of the dead in the Middle Ages
By: Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781501702617
Subjects: History; Dead; Future life; History of doctrines; Mythology; Death in popular culture; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining mortality; title: Mors, a critical biography; title: Diagnosing death; title: Corporeal revenants; title: Revenants, resurrection, and burnt sacrifice; title: The hellequin and the burning ones; title: Flesh and bone: the semiotics of mortality; title: The disembodied dead; title: Psychopomps, oracles, and spirit mediums; title: Spectral possession.