Supernatural Encounters
Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050?1450
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 2 August 2021
- ISBN 9781032082448
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 234
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Short description:
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. In this volume, Stephen Gordon explores the ways in which conflicting ideas about the intention and agency of supernatural entities were understood and articulated in different social and literary contexts.
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The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. Whether a pestilent-spreading corpse mobilised by the devil, a purgatorial spirit returning to earth to ask for suffrage, or a shape-shifting demon intent on crushing its victims as they slept, encounters with supernatural entities were often met with consternation and fear. Chroniclers, hagiographers, sermon writers, satirists, poets, and even medical practitioners utilised the cultural ?text? of the supernatural encounter in many different ways, showcasing the multiplicity of contemporary attitudes to death, disease, and the afterlife. In this volume, Stephen Gordon explores the ways in which conflicting ideas about the intention and agency of supernatural entities were understood and articulated in different social and literary contexts. Focusing primarily on material from medieval England, c.1050?1450, Gordon discusses how writers such as William of Malmesbury, William of Newburgh, Walter Map, John Mirk, and Geoffrey Chaucer utilised the belief in demons, nightmares, and walking corpses for pointed critical effect. Ultimately, this monograph provides new insights into the ways in which the broad ontological category of the ?revenant? was conceptualised in the medieval world.
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Introduction; The Witch of Berkeley in Context; The Critical Function of the Walking Corpse in William of Newburgh?s Historia rerum Anglicarum; Satirising the Undead: Walter Map and the Ambiguation of Wonder; Between Demons and the Undead: Preaching Practice and Local Belief in the Sermons of John Mirk; "But whan us liketh we kan take us oon?: Vain Surfaces and Walking Corpses in Chaucer?s Friar?s Tale; Nightmares and the Supernatural Encounter; Epilogue; Index
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