Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Translations
- Introduction: ‘The Graves, All Gaping Wide, Every One Lets Forth His Sprite’
- 1 The Corpse in Christianity: The Dead, Mostly Dead and Very Special Dead
- 2 The Religious Revenant
- 3 The Corpse as Admonition, Art and Bogeyman
- 4 The Reformed Revenant
- 5 The Dead Rise – in Literature
- Conclusion
- Envoi: In the Time of Plague
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Translations
- Introduction: ‘The Graves, All Gaping Wide, Every One Lets Forth His Sprite’
- 1 The Corpse in Christianity: The Dead, Mostly Dead and Very Special Dead
- 2 The Religious Revenant
- 3 The Corpse as Admonition, Art and Bogeyman
- 4 The Reformed Revenant
- 5 The Dead Rise – in Literature
- Conclusion
- Envoi: In the Time of Plague
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- When the Dead RiseNarratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021