Imagining the medieval afterlife / edited by Richard Matthew Pollard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cambridge Core.

Pollard, Richard Matthew, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Future life in literature.

Future life in art.

Future life--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Future life.

Future life--History of doctrines.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 352 pages) : illustrations.

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[alternative or abbreviated title]

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Summary:

"Where do we go after we die? This book traces how the European Middle Ages offered distinctive answers to this universal question, evolving from Antiquity through to the sixteenth century, to reflect a variety of problems and developments. Focusing on texts describing visions of the afterlife, alongside art and theology, this volume explores heaven, hell, and purgatory as they were imagined across Europe, as well as by noted authors including Gregory the Great and Dante. A cross-disciplinary team of contributors including historians, literary scholars, classicists, art historians and theologians offer not only a fascinating sketch of both medieval perceptions and the wide scholarship on this question: they also provide a much-needed new perspective. Where the twelfth century was once the 'high point' of the medieval afterlife, the essays here show that the afterlife of the early and later Middle Ages were far more important and imaginative than we once thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Just deserts in the ancient pagan afterlife / Susanna Braund and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2020).

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Other Format:

Print version: Imagining the medieval afterlife

ISBN:

9781316823255

1316823253

1316836037

9781316836033

OCLC:

1159617784

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