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The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

 
9780143107682: The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143107682 ISBN 13: 9780143107682
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath.

Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, showing the evolution in our thinking about the
ability of dead souls to return to the realm of the living--and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Scott G. Bruce (editor) is a professor of medieval history and the director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. An expert on medieval monasticism, he has written two books about the monks of the abbey of Cluny.

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The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.

Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead te

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Contents

Ancient Apparitions

I. Greek and Roman Remains
• Odysseus in the House of Death
• Pliny Contemplates the Existence of Ghosts
• A Mistress of the Graves

II. Early Christian Hauntings
• Speaking with the Dead in the Hebrew Scriptures
• A Ghost Upon the Waters
• Dreaming of the Dead
• The Discernment of the Saints
 
The Autopsy of Souls in Late Ancient Thought

• Evodius’s Inquiry: Going Forth from the Body, Who Are We?
• Augustine’s Rejection of Ghosts
• Pope Gregory the Great: How Can the Living Help the Dead?
 
The Ecology of the Otherworld in Dark Age Europe

• The Vision of Barontus
• Dryhthelm Returns from the Dead
                       
Spectral Servants of the Church

• Imperial Torments
• Cluny and the Feast of All Souls
• A Lesbian Ghost
• The Haunting of the Cloister
• Warnings to the Living
 
Night is the Dead’s Domain

• Spirits of Malice
• The Blackened Hearts of Stapenhill
• The Evil Welshman
• Rampaging Revenants
 
The Ghosts of War

• Terror in Tonnerre
• Hellequin’s Horde
• An Army White as Snow
 
Northern Horrors

• The Ravenous Dead
• Old Ghosts, New Laws
 
Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror

• Recreation for an Emperor
• The Ghosts of Byland Abbey
 
The Reformation of the Wraiths

• Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght
• When Night Draws Swiftly Darkling On
 
Haunting the Wings

• The Torments of Tantalus
• Hamlet, Remember Me

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143107682
ISBN 13 
9780143107682
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Bruce Scott G.
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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