Agreements to Return from the Afterlife in Late Medieval Exempla
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12033207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Rider (0000-0002-4849-5503, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Pages | 174-183 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0424208400002497 |
| OpenAlex | W2328518048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
One of the ways in which medieval Christians thought about the links between this life and the afterlife was by telling ghost stories – a topic which has attracted the attention of several historians. In these stories, a dead person often appears to a living relative or friend and asks them to give alms or to perform other good works on their behalf, in order to speed up their passage to heaven. The dead person usually appears spontaneously, although sometimes this occurs after relatives have said prayers for them. This paper, however, will examine a group of stories about less spontaneous apparitions. These are stories in which two people agree that whichever of them dies first will come back and tell the other about the afterlife. They have sometimes been mentioned in studies of medieval ghost stories, but they have not been examined in their own right
Afterlife · Art · Heaven · Literature · Order (exchange · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |