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1 online resource (243 pages) |
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Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser |
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Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; The restless dead in medieval Europe: a fluid cultural text; Ambiguous ontologies and the restless dead; Previous research and chapter breakdown; Notes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Chapter 1 The Witch of Berkeley in context; Introduction; William of Malmesbury and the Witch of Berkeley: some considerations; The literary function of the Witch of Berkeley; From Malmesbury to Southey: the textual history of the Witch of Berkeley |
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ConclusionNotes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Chapter 2 The critical function of the walking corpse in William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum; Introduction; Portents and monsters; The Historia rerum Anglicarum in context; The Historia and the walking dead; The social revenant: William FitzOsbert, warmongering kings and William Longchamp; Conclusion: William of Newburgh and the uses of the walking corpse; Notes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Chapter 3 Satirising the undead: Walter Map and the ambiguation of wonder; Introduction |
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Satire in twelfth century England: some considerationsWalter Map and the De nugis curialium; 'Moral' revenants in twelfth-century literature; 'Amoral' revenants: an ironic subversion of genre; Conclusion; Notes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Chapter 4 Between demons and the undead: Preaching practice and local belief in the sermons of John Mirk; Introduction; The Festial: background and context; Prayers for the undead: exploring the Festial's De dedicacione ecclesie sermon; Exorcising demons: exploring Mirk's In die sepulture alicuius Mortui sermon; Conclusion; Notes; Primary sources |
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Secondary sourcesChapter 5 'But whan us liketh we kan take us oon': Vain surfaces and walking corpses in Chaucer's Friar's Tale; Introduction; The Friar's Tale: an overview; Chaucer's demonology; Conclusion: commerce and the undead corpse; Notes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Chapter 6 Nightmares and the supernatural encounter; Introduction; Canonical traditions of the nightmare: dreams, humoural theory, and sin; Insular traditions and the nightmare; Nightmares and revenants in medieval historiography; Conclusion; Notes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Epilogue |
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From the medieval to the early modern: the persistence of habitConclusion; Notes; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429779169 |
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042977916X |
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9780429779152 |
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0429779151 |
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