Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Afterlives (eBook, PDF)

The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nancy Mandeville Caciola is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages and Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, both from Cornell.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501703478
• Artikelnr.: 48411373

Autorenporträt

Nancy Mandeville Caciola is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, also from Cornell.

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