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Souls of Naples : corporeal ghosts and spiritual bodies in early modern Naples

Roma: Viella, 2024
Curators: De Ceglia,Francesco Paolo
ISBN: 9791254695159
Collana: Viella historical research; 26

40,00 

Souls of Naples : corporeal ghosts and spiritual bodies in early modern Naples

40,00 

Souls of Naples : corporeal ghosts and spiritual bodies in early modern Naples

40,00 

In this volume you will find stories about hyperactive relics, ghosts in spiritual or bodily form, as well as accounts of the dead being conjured, resurrected, and brought back to life from decomposing matter. This is not so much for the purpose of assembling a kind of Neapolitan Wunderkammer, but rather to allow these bodies – in physical or spiritual form, or sometimes both at the same time – to speak as protagonists, and to offer their own contribution to the historical anthropology of the Kingdom of Naples. This volume explores the boundaries between body and spirit, life and death, as well as the natural, preternatural, and supernatural in the long early modern era in southern Italy.

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