LEADER 04205nam 2200661 450 001 9910465464603321 005 20210430213737.0 010 $a1-5017-0347-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703478 035 $a(CKB)3710000000647833 035 $a(EBL)4517886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001651225 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16426292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001651225 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14977475 035 $a(PQKB)10896774 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510562 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517886 035 $a(OCoLC)947119145 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51389 035 $a(DE-B1597)480101 035 $a(OCoLC)979905764 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703478 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517886 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL951812 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000647833 100 $a20160903h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfterlives $ethe return of the dead in the Middle Ages /$fNancy Mandeville Caciola 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-5017-0261-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Maps and Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tPart One: Imagining Mortality --$t1. Mors , A Critical Biography --$t2. Diagnosing Death --$tPart Two: Corporeal Revenants --$t3. Revenants, Resurrection, and Burnt Sacrifice 4. The Ancient Army of the Undead --$t4. The Ancient Army of the Undead --$t5. Flesh and Bone: The Semiotics of Mortality --$tPart Three: The Disembodied Dead --$t6. Psychopomps, Oracles, and Spirit Mediums --$t7. Spectral Possession --$tConclusion --$tIndex 330 $aSimultaneously 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 or revenants. In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year 1000.Caciola considers both Christian and pagan beliefs, showing how certain traditions survived and evolved over time, and how attitudes both diverged and overlapped through different contexts and social strata. As she shows, the intersection of Christian eschatology with various pagan afterlife imaginings-from the classical paganisms of the Mediterranean to the Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, and Scandinavian paganisms indigenous to northern Europe-brought new cultural values about the dead into the Christian fold as Christianity spread across Europe. Indeed, the Church proved surprisingly open to these influences, absorbing new images of death and afterlife in unpredictable fashion. Over time, however, the persistence of regional cultures and beliefs would be counterbalanced by the effects of an increasingly centralized Church hierarchy. Through it all, one thing remained constant: the deep desire in medieval people to bring together the living and the dead into a single community enduring across the generations. 606 $aDeath in popular culture$zEurope$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aDead$xMythology$zEurope 606 $aFuture life$xChristianity$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDeath in popular culture$xHistory 615 0$aDead$xMythology 615 0$aFuture life$xChristianity 676 $a306.9 700 $aCaciola$b Nancy$f1963-$01026360 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465464603321 996 $aAfterlives$92460103 997 $aUNINA