Souls of Naples

Corporeal Ghosts and Spiritual Bodies in Early Modern Naples

edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia

Book cover: Souls of Naples

Extent: 322 pages

Publisher: Viella – libreria editrice

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies

Series: Viella Historical Research

Series volume number: 26

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2023)

ISBN: 9791254695159

Price: $46.00

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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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