Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, C.1050-1450 by Stephen Gordon

Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, C.1050-1450

Studies in Medieval History and Culture

Stephen Gordon

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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-shifti...

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