Souls of Naples
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Souls of Naples

Corporeal Ghosts and Spiritual Bodies in Early Modern Naples

  1. 321 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Souls of Naples

Corporeal Ghosts and Spiritual Bodies in Early Modern Naples

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Introduction
  7. I. Relics with a Sense of Rhythm
  8. II. The Souls in Purgatory, Mesmeric Fluids, and Politicized Ectoplasms
  9. III. Boundaries, Transgressions, Punishments
  10. IV. The Art of Returning: Resurrections and Palingenesis
  11. Index of Names
  12. Contributors