Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages by Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages

Nancy Mandeville Caciola

379 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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, reg...

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