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This study examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the Middle Ages. It discusses Augustine's influence on medieval authors, and monastic visions and folklore.

Table of Contents
The rejection of ghosts; dreaming of the dead; the invasion of ghosts; the marvelous dead; Hellequin's hunt; the imaginary tamed?; the dead and power; time, space, and society; describing ghosts.

Ghosts in the Middle Ages The Living and the Dead

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean-Claude Schmitt, Teresa Lavender Fagan

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 December 1999
      ISBN-13 9780226738888
      978-0226738888
      ISBN-10 0226738884
      Also in:
      Folklore studies / Study of myth Religion Comparative religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the Middle Ages. It discusses Augustine's influence on medieval authors, and monastic visions and folklore.

      Table of Contents
      The rejection of ghosts; dreaming of the dead; the invasion of ghosts; the marvelous dead; Hellequin's hunt; the imaginary tamed?; the dead and power; time, space, and society; describing ghosts.

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