Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature: Imagining the Medieval Afterlife by Pollard, Richard Matthew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Coverpage Half title Series page Title page Imprints page Contents Figures Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Imagining the Medieval Afterlife: Introduction

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Part I Chronological Surveys

Chapter 1 Just Deserts in the Ancient Pagan Afterlife

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Chapter 2 Visions of the Afterlife in the Early Medieval West

Oriental Inspirations An Age of Experimentations The Long Seventh Century: Continuation and Consolidation The Visio Baronti: a Prelude to Carolingian Visionary Literature By Way of Conclusion Notes

Chapter 3 A Morbid Efflorescence: Envisaging the Afterlife in the Carolingian Period

Orabant eos intercessores fieri: ‘They Beseeched the Saints to Intercede’ (Heito, VW, c. 16) Conclusion Notes

Chapter 4 The Afterlife in the Medieval Celtic-Speaking World

Sources and Historiography Otherworlds and Afterlives Heaven Hell Return to Purgatory Notes

Chapter 5 Anglo-Saxon Visions of Heaven and Hell

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Chapter 6 Otherworld Journeys of the Central Middle Ages

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Chapter 7 Visions of the Otherworlds in the Late Middle Ages, c. 1300–c. 1500

Sources for Accounts of Visions of the Otherworlds Visits to the Otherworlds: Purgatory Visitors from the Otherworlds: Ghosts from Purgatory Visitors from the Otherworlds: Demons from Hell Visitors from the Otherworlds: Saints from Heaven Conclusion Notes

Part II Theological Perspectives

Chapter 8 Purgatory’s Intercessors: Bishops, Ghosts, and Angry Wives

Purgatory’s Ghosts Visiting the Otherworld Many Intercessors Conclusion Notes

Chapter 9 The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c. 400–c. 1100

Introduction The Immediate Fate of the Soul after Death Theological Concepts and Religious Practices Sin Penance Religious Practices: Offerings, Burials, and ‘Popular’ Belief Theological Questioning in the Early Middle Ages Conclusion Notes

Chapter 10 Afterdeath Locations and Return Appearances, from Scripture to Shakespeare

Afterdeath Locations Visitations to the Earth’s Surface by Separated Suffering Souls Visitations from Separated Souls in Heaven Notes

Part III Artistic Impressions

Chapter 11 ‘Eye Hath not Seen … which Things God Hath Prepared …’: Imagining Heaven and Hell in Romanesque and Gothic Art

Monumental Imaginings Miniature Imaginings Notes

Part IV Notable Authors and Texts

Chapter 12 Visions and the Afterlife in Gregory’s Dialogues

The Dialogues and Gregory’s Ideas about Visions The Perception of Invisible Realities Afterlife, Its Nature, and Images The Reception of Gregory’s Ideas about Visions Conclusion Notes

Chapter 13 The Vision of Tnugdal

The Author The Visionary and the Vision’s Frame The Structure of the Vision The Otherworld Guide Hell and Its Punishments The Pit of Hell The Intermediate Places Heaven Return to the Living Legacy Notes

Chapter 14 The Afterlife in the Visionary Experiences of the Female Mystics

Hildegard of Bingen and Elisabeth of Schönau Mechthild of Magdeburg, Mechthild of Hackeborn, and Gertrude of Helfta Birgitta of Sweden Notes

Chapter 15 Dante’s Other-Worldly Surprises and This-Worldly Polemic

Introduction Dante’s Political Theory and His Eschatological Vision Pagans in Dante’s Christian Afterlife, and the Ideal of Empire Popes in Hell, and a Celestial Manifesto for the Roman Church Conclusion Notes

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