Imagining the Medieval Afterlife

Richard Matthew Pollard studied at Toronto and then Cambridge, and his doctoral thesis won the 2010 Leonard Boyle prize. Aside from numerous articles and chapters, he completed the first new edition of the Latin version of Josephus' Antiquities since 1524 and is preparing a new critical edition of the Visio Wettini.

Preface; List of abbreviations; List of figures; 1. Introduction Richard M. Pollard; Part I. Chronological Surveys: 2. Just deserts in the ancient pagan afterlife Susanna Braund and Emma Hilliard; 3. Visions of the afterlife in the early medieval west Yitzhak Hen; 4. A Morbid efflorescence: envisaging the afterlife in the Carolingian period Richard M. Pollard; 5. The afterlife in the medieval Celtic-speaking world Elizabeth Boyle; 6. Anglo-Saxon visions of heaven and hell Gernot Wieland; 7. Otherworld journeys of the central middle ages Carl Watkins; 8. Visions of the otherworlds in the late middle ages, c.1300–c.1500 Gwenfair Walters Adams; Part II. Theological Perspectives: 9. Purgatory's intercessors Isabel Moreira; 10. The theology of the afterlife in the early middle ages, c.600–c.1100 Helen Foxhall Forbes; 11. Afterdeath locations and return appearances, from scripture to Shakespeare Henry Ansgar Kelly; Part III. Artistic Impressions: 12. 'Eye hath not seen [...] which things God hath prepared [...] ': imagining heaven and hell in Romanesque and Gothic art Adam R. Stead; Part IV. Notable Authors and Texts; 13. Visions and the afterlife in Gregory's dialogues Jesse Keskiaho; 14. The vision of Tnugdal Eileen Gardiner; 15. The afterlife in the visionary experiences of the female mystics Debra L. Stoudt; 16. Dante's other-worldly surprises and this-worldly polemic George Corbett; Cumulative bibliography.