Afterlives : the return of the dead in the Middle Ages / Nancy Mandeville Caciola.

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.

©2016.

xvi, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1: Imagining mortality. Mors, a critical biography ; Diagnosing death -- Part 2: Corporeal revenants. Revenants, resurrection, and burnt sacrifice ; The Ancient army of the undead ; Flesh and bone : the semiotics of mortality -- Part 3: The disembodied dead. Psychopomps, oracles, and spirit mediums ; Spectral possession -- Conclusion.