When the Dead No Longer Rest: The Religious Significance of Revenants in Sagas set in Viking Age Settlements Around the Time of Conversion

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Death and the Culture of Death 1
4. Heroic Poetry: Achievement and Heroic Death in Old English Literature 59
5. Death and Ritual: The Role of Wills in Late Anglo-Saxon England 75
6. Palimpsest in the Service of the Cult of the Saints—The False Arch in the Nave’s Vault of the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe 95
7. When the Dead No Longer Rest: The Religious Significance of Revenants in Sagas set in Viking Age Settlements Around the Time of Conversion 131
8. The North Portal of the Freiburg im Breisgau Minster: Cosmological Imagery as Funerary Art 155
9. The Effects of the Black Death: The Plague in Fourteenth-Century Religion, Literature, and Art 193
10. Bonum est mortis meditari: Meanings and Functions of the Medieval Double Macabre Portrait 239
11. Imagining the Mass of Death in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale: A Critique of Medieval Eucharistic Practices 263
12. Death, Sinfulness, the Devil, and the Clerical Author: The Late Medieval German Didactic Debate Poem Des Teufels Netz and the World of Craftsmanship 277
13. Pro Defunctis Exorare: The Community of the Living and the Dead in Jean Gerson’s Sermones de Omnibus Sanctis and de Mortuis 297
14. “And Thus She Will Perish:” Gender, Jurisdiction, and the Execution of Women in Late Medieval France 311
15. “Je viens …/d’estrange contrée”: Medieval French Comedy Envisions the Afterlife 339
16. Gallows Humor in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea 357
17. Late Medieval Carved Cadaver Memorials in England and Wales 373
18. Images of Mortality in Early English Drama 411
19. New Perspectives of the Early Modern Afterlife: The Last Pilgrimage in the Poetry of John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh 433
20. Maternal Death and Patriarchal Succession in Renaissance France 457
21. Fear of Seeming Death in Eighteenth-Century Europe 491
22. Contributors 519
23. List of Illustrations 527
24. Index 533