Imagining the medieval afterlife /

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Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
©2020
Description:1 online resource ( xvii, 352 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature
Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12493381
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Other authors / contributors:Pollard, Richard Matthew, editor.
ISBN:9781316823255
1316823253
1316836037
9781316836033
9781107177918
9781316630785
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2020).
Other form:Print version: Imagining the medieval afterlife Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781107177918
Table of Contents:
  • Just deserts in the ancient pagan afterlife / Susanna Braund & Emma Hilliard
  • Visions of the afterlife in the early medieval West / Yitzhak Hen
  • A morbid efflorescence : envisaging the afterlife in the Carolingian period / Richard M. Pollard
  • The afterlife in the medieval Celtic-speaking world / Elizabeth Boyle
  • Anglo-Saxon visions of heaven and hell / Gernot Wieland
  • Otherworld journeys of the central Middle ages / Carl Watkins
  • Visions of the otherworlds in the late Middle ages, c. 1300-c. 1500 / Gwenfair Walters Adams
  • Purgatory's intercessors / Isabel Moreira
  • The theology of the afterlife in the early Middle ages, c. 600-c. 1100 / Helen Foxhall Forbes
  • Afterdeath locations and return appearances, from Scripture to Shakespeare / Henry Ansgar Kelly
  • 'Eye hath not seen [...] which things God hath prepared [...]': imagining ed [...]' heaven and hell in Romanesque and Gothic art / Adam R. Stead
  • Visions and the afterlife in Gregory's dialogues / Jesse Keskiaho
  • The vision of Tnugdal / Eileen Gardiner
  • The afterlife in the visionary experiences of the female mystics / Debra L. Stoudt
  • Dante's other worldly surprises and this worldly polemic / George Corbett.