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Cover 1 Half-title 2 Series information 3 Title page 6 Copyright information 7 Contents 8 List of Figures 10 List of Contributors 12 Preface and Acknowledgements 14 List of Abbreviations 16 Imagining the Medieval Afterlife: Introduction 20 Notes 24 Part I Chronological Surveys 26 Chapter 1 Just Deserts in the Ancient Pagan Afterlife 28 Notes 41 Chapter 2 Visions of the Afterlife in the Early Medieval West 44 Oriental Inspirations 45 An Age of Experimentations 48 The Long Seventh Century: Continuation and Consolidation 51 The Visio Baronti: a Prelude to Carolingian Visionary Literature 52 By Way of Conclusion 55 Notes 56 Chapter 3 A Morbid Efflorescence: Envisaging the Afterlife in the Carolingian Period 59 Orabant eos intercessores fieri: 'They Beseeched the Saints to Intercede' (Heito, VW, c. 16) 61 Conclusion 74 Notes 75 Chapter 4 The Afterlife in the Medieval Celtic-Speaking World 81 Sources and Historiography 81 Otherworlds and Afterlives 85 Heaven 86 Hell 89 Return to Purgatory 92 Notes 95 Chapter 5 Anglo-Saxon Visions of Heaven and Hell 98 Notes 113 Chapter 6 Otherworld Journeys of the Central Middle Ages 118 Notes 131 Chapter 7 Visions of the Otherworlds in the Late Middle A

Author

Pollard, Richard Matthew;

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