Suffering Souls
Marina Warner: Ghosts in the Middle Ages, 18 June 1998
Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society
by Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Theresa Lavender Fagan.
Chicago, 290 pp., £26.50, May 1998,0 226 73887 6 Show More
by Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Theresa Lavender Fagan.
Chicago, 290 pp., £26.50, May 1998,
“... deeds as a knight. This early vision of the nameless, vast crowd of the damned lent support, Jean-Claude Schmitt argues, to two campaigns of the early medieval Church: to control and pacify the godless and lawless military, and to promote the liturgy of the dead. In this history of ghosts from around 500 to 1500, ... ”
