Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society - Softcover

Schmitt, Jean-Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226738884 ISBN 13: 9780226738888

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

Postmodern Fables This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbi... Full description

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Synopsis:

Through this study, Jean-Claude Schmitt examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the Middle Ages. Schmitt also discusses Augustine's influence on medieval authors; the link between dreams and autobiographical narratives; and monastic visions and folklore. Including numerous colour reproductions of ghosts and ghostly trappings, this book presents a look at medieval culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0226738884
• ISBN 13: 9780226738888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320