Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501710699
ISBN13:9781501710698
Release Date:October 2017
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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