Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society by Jean-Claude Schmitt

Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society

Jean-Claude Schmitt with Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)

298 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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Through this vivid study, Jean-Claude Schmitt examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the middle ages. Schmitt al...

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