Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages
Patrick J. Geary
Cornell University Press, 1994
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Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in the negotiation of political...
- ISBN-13
- 9780801480980
- ISBN-10
- 0801480981
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 1994
- Publication date
- 1994-10-28
- Pages
- 264
- Dimensions
- 225x156x17
- Weight
- 430