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Otherworld journeys : accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times
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ISBN: 128052362X 0198020988 0195363523 9780195363524 9781280523625 6610523622 9786610523627 0195039157 9780195039153 0195056655 9780195056655 9786610523627 0190281588 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating ""near-death"" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm of light, visual reviews of their past deeds, encounters with a benevolent spirit, and permanent transformation after returning to life. Carol Zaleski's Otherworld Journeys offers the most comprehensive treatment to date of the evidence surrounding near-death experiences. The first to pla


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Beyond death's door
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ISBN: 0553128868 9780553128864 Year: 1978 Publisher: New York: Bantam books,

The hanged man : a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0691117195 1400849063 9780691117195 0691126046 1299730841 Year: 2004 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,

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Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe. The Hanged Man tells the story of this putative miracle--why it happened, what it meant, and how we know about it. The nine eyewitness accounts live on in the transcripts of de Cantilupe's canonization hearings, and these previously unexamined documents contribute not only to an enthralling mystery, but to an unprecedented glimpse into the day-to-day workings of medieval society. While unraveling the haunting tale of the hanged man, Robert Bartlett leads us deeply into the world of lords, rebels, churchmen, papal inquisitors, and other individuals living at the time of conflict and conquest in Wales. In the process, he reconstructs voices that others have failed to find. We hear from the lady of the castle where the hanged man was imprisoned, the laborer who watched the execution, the French bishop charged with investigating the case, and scores of other members of the medieval citizenry. Brimming with the intrigue of a detective novel, The Hanged Man will appeal to both scholars of medieval history and general readers alike.

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