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Throughout history, people have reported seeing ghosts. But if we compare a Victorian apparition with a medieval European or Classical Greek ghost, we will find that they are very different phenomena. In Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation, R. C. Finucane makes just such a comparison. Surveying reports of ghosts from ancient Greece, the early Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, and the twentieth century, Finucane asks some probing questions: How have the physical aspects claimed for ghosts varied from age to age? What differences are there in the functions and intentions ascribed to ghosts? How have the changes in more general beliefs - in religion and science, in particular - influenced the perception of ghosts? For the first time a professional historian, drawing on primary sources from all periods and cultures, addresses this topic in its full breadth.
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- Title Ghosts
- Author R. C. Finucane
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Prometheus Books, NY
- Date June 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781573920681 / 1573920681
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 5.99 x 0.81 in (22.83 x 15.21 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Ghosts - History, Ghosts - History - Europe, Western
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96013115
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.1
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