Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary

Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages

Patrick J. Geary

264 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 w...

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