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| Title | : | The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters (Penguin Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143107682 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. 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. 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. 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 the ability o
"Venerable apparitions, visible revenants" according to John L Murphy. This cleverly titled anthology relies on a suggestive subtitle to warn the curious inquirer. The fifteen centuries of "supernatural encounters" span not medieval times up to our zombie- and vampire-obsessed nights. Rather, this purview begins in ancient apparitions recorded by Homer, Pliny, and Lucan. Ghosts and spirits long captivated listeners before they were ever written down, and these glimmers into the underworld betray a primeval and persistent human urge to p
He worked his way through college as a grave digger. Bruce (editor) is a professor of medieval history and the director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. . An expert on medieval monasticism, he has written two books about the monks of the abbey of Cluny. Scott G
Bruce has chosen selections from numerous cultures, including ancient Greece, Anglo-Norman England, and medieval Scandinavia. “This exceptionally well-curated compilation shows that the wide variety of accounts of the undead have been rampant in literature long before the Gothic era. He presents the contents with an enthusiasm that makes these works accessible to the casual reader.” —Publishers Weekly“It succeeds well as an education in how stories of wander
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