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Afterlives - The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Afterlives - The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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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, 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.
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