A History of Ghosts

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Kirsty Logan tells us the tale of the medieval revenant, a ghost made of flesh and bone.

Kirsty Logan tells us tales of the revenant, a malevolent ghost made of flesh and bone that haunted medieval England.

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'There once was a man who died. He was flesh and bone when he went into the ground. And flesh and bone when he came back out of it.'

Kirsty Logan delves into tales of the revenant, a terrifying, malevolent ghost that haunted medieval England, and was anything but spectral.

She traces the origins of revenant stories to a violent entity that terrified even the fiercest of Viking warriors, discovers how the way you lived your life would determine if you would be accepted into heaven, or have the very earth would spit you out, and how the development of purgatory in Christian belief changed how people thought of ghosts forever.

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