Vigor Mortis : The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Societies (Hardcover)

Preface. Introduction: The vitality of the dead in medieval cultures?1. The worm and the corpse: Carolingian visions of Gehenna’s undead cemetery?2. ‘Agite, agite et uenite!’ Corrupted breath, corrupted speech and encounters with the restless dead in Geoffrey of Burton’s Vita sancte Moduenne virginis?3. The necromancer and the abbot: summoning the dead in Cistercian exempla?4. The dead in dreams: medieval Icelandic conceptions of the unquiet dead?5. Talking with ghosts: Ranciere, Derrida and the archive?6. Landscapes of the dead in the late medieval imagination?7. Byland Revisited, or, Spectres of Inheritance?8. Bodies of Earth and Air: Corporeality and Spirituality in Pre-Modern British Narratives of the Undead?9. Of Saxons and spectres

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