This winter, Dr Eleanor Janega leads us into the darker corners of the medieval imagination - a world where the boundary between the living and the dead was dangerously thin.
Drawing on medieval chronicles, religious monuments, and Icelandic sagas, we learn why people believed the dead could return, and what those fears reveal about sin, salvation, and community.
From a monk buried in chains for refusing to stay dead, to a choir girl sent back from purgatory with a chilling warning; these stories illuminate how people in the Middle Ages understood the supernatural, and why those fears still linger today.
…be prepared for a fright!
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You can watch Eleanor’s first film on the medieval afterlife here: https://access.historyhit.com/videos/medieval-afterlife
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