Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages
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 -- Spec...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Ithaca London : Cornell University Press,
[2016]
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Schlagworte: | Death in popular culture Dead Future life Tod Sterben Jenseits Jenseitsglaube Geschichte 500-1500 |
| Umfang: | xvi, 363 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 363 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781501702617 1501702610 |