The Penguin Book of the Undead
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Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern i...
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Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, showing the evolution in our thinking about theability of dead souls to return to the realm of the living--and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780143107682
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
320
Udgivelsesdato
06-10-2016
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2322875
EAN nr.
9780143107682
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
197
Bredde (mm)
133
Længde (mm)
23
Vægt (g)
256