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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.

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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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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/12/1999
    ISBN13: 9780226738888, 978-0226738888
    ISBN10: 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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