Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050-1450

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Dedication
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Introduction
	The restless dead in medieval Europe: a fluid cultural text	#13,0,-32767	Ambiguous ontologies and the restless dead 	#20,0,-32767	Previous research and chapter breakdown	#24,0,-32767	Notes	#28,0,-32767	Primary sources	#34,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#35,0,-32767Chapter 1 The Witch of Berkeley in context	#39,0,-32767	Introduction
	William of Malmesbury and the Witch of Berkeley: some considerations	#41,0,-32767	The literary function of the Witch of Berkeley	#49,0,-32767	From Malmesbury to Southey: the textual history of the Witch of Berkeley	#54,0,-32767	Conclusion	#67,0,-32767	Notes	#71,0,-32767	Primary sources	#80,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#82,0,-32767Chapter 2 The critical function of the walking corpse in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum	#86,0,-32767	Introduction
	Portents and monsters	#87,0,-32767	The Historia rerum Anglicarum in context	#88,0,-32767	The Historia and the walking dead	#91,0,-32767	The social revenant: William FitzOsbert, warmongering kings and William Longchamp	#95,0,-32767	Conclusion: William of Newburgh and the uses of the walking corpse	#100,0,-32767	Notes	#102,0,-32767	Primary sources	#108,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#109,0,-32767Chapter 3 Satirising the undead: Walter Map and the ambiguation of wonder	#113,0,-32767	Introduction
	Satire in twelfth century England: some considerations	#114,0,-32767	Walter Map and the De nugis curialium	#116,0,-32767	‘Moral’ revenants in twelfth-century literature	#121,0,-32767	‘Amoral’ revenants: an ironic subversion of genre	#124,0,-32767	Conclusion	#130,0,-32767	Notes	#131,0,-32767	Primary sources	#137,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#138,0,-32767Chapter 4 Between demons and the undead: Preaching practice and local belief in the sermons of John Mirk	#141,0,-32767	Introduction
	The Festial: background and context	#144,0,-32767	Prayers for the undead: exploring the Festial’s De dedicacione ecclesie sermon 	#148,0,-32767	Exorcising demons: exploring Mirk’s In die sepulture alicuius Mortui sermon	#155,0,-32767	Conclusion	#159,0,-32767	Notes	#161,0,-32767	Primary sources	#167,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#169,0,-32767Chapter 5 ‘But whan us liketh we kan take us oon’: Vain surfaces and walking corpses in Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale	#172,0,-32767	Introduction
	The Friar’s Tale: an overview	#174,0,-32767	Chaucer’s demonology	#178,0,-32767	Conclusion: commerce and the undead corpse 	#186,0,-32767	Notes	#188,0,-32767	Primary sources	#194,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#195,0,-32767Chapter 6 Nightmares and the supernatural encounter	#198,0,-32767	Introduction
	Canonical traditions of the nightmare: dreams, humoural theory, and sin	#200,0,-32767	Insular traditions and the nightmare	#208,0,-32767	Nightmares and revenants in medieval historiography	#212,0,-32767	Conclusion	#216,0,-32767	Notes	#217,0,-32767	Primary sources	#224,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#226,0,-32767Epilogue
	From the medieval to the early modern: the persistence of habit
	Conclusion	#235,0,-32767	Notes	#237,0,-32767	Primary sources	#238,0,-32767	Secondary sources	#238,0,-32767Index