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Index
Coverpage
Half title
Series page
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Imagining the Medieval Afterlife: Introduction
Notes
Part I Chronological Surveys
Chapter 1 Just Deserts in the Ancient Pagan Afterlife
Notes
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
Notes
Chapter 6 Otherworld Journeys of the Central Middle Ages
Notes
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
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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