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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Main Author: Caciola, Nancy, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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