Living with the dead in the Middle Ages /
Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women acccorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
1994.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7k4k |