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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Approaches
1. Who Were the Dangerous Dead?
2. Fearing Dead Friends, Killing Dead Enemies: Are Animated Corpses a Human Constant?
3. The Dangerous Dead in Society
4. Rest in Peace (and Don't Come Back): Hovering on the Threshold of Death's Door
5. Understanding Stories (1): The Spoken and Written Word
6. Understanding Stories (2): Vampires in Print
7. Understanding Corpses: The Evidence of Burial Archaeology
Part II: Dynamics
8. The Circumpolar World and Northern Asia: Corpses and Life-Forces
9. India and China: Lumpen Corpses and Lustful Hyena-Women
10. Flying Demons and Dangerous Women
11. The 'Carmilla Template' in China and the Eastern Roman Empire
12. Wonder-Working Women: The Power and the Danger
Part III: From the Ancient Middle East to the Early Medieval North
13. Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome before Christ
14. The Later Roman World and Christianity
15. The British Isles and Northern Francia, 200-600: Social Trauma, Wise-Women, and Mortuary Theatre
16. The Christian English, 600-700 (1): Saintly Women and Holy Incorrupt Bodies
17. The Christian English, 600-700 (2): Sinister Women and Dangerous Incorrupt Bodies
18. Francia, England, and Scandinavia, 700-1000
Part IV: Europe in the High Middle Ages
19. Motifs Taking Shape: The Making of the 'European Vampire'
20. An Icelandic Epidemic?
21. The English Walking Dead, 1000-1200 (1): Stories and Corpses
22. The English Walking Dead, 1000-1200 (2): Breaking God's Law and the King's
23. Central and Southern Europe, 1000-1400
Part V: Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
24. The Eurasian Reservoir of Beliefs: Night-Battlers, Damned Huntsmen, and Bloodsucking Corpses
25. Life-Forces, Shape-Shifters, and Dangerous Corpses: Eastern Europe, 1400-1750
26. The Dead Retreat Northward Again: England and Scotland, 1200-1750
27. Noxious Corpses and Noisy Shroud-Eaters: The German-Speaking Lands in the Age of Reformation
28. Movers and Shakers: Active Corpses in Bohemia and Silesia, 1330-1600
29. The Dangerous Dead between Witchcraft and the Enlightenment: East-Central Europe, 1550-1700
30. From Moravia to Transylvania: The Carpathian Arc, 1700-25
31. Vampires in the News, 1725-57
Part VI: The Modern World: Towards Folklore and Fiction
32. Vampires for a Scientific Age: Pennsylvania and New England
33. 'The Horrible Scenes of Old Time': Europe after 1750
34. Vampires of Colonialism and Slavery
Conclusion: The Dangerous Dead as Mirrors of Reality
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Sources and Credits
Index
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Approaches
1. Who Were the Dangerous Dead?
2. Fearing Dead Friends, Killing Dead Enemies: Are Animated Corpses a Human Constant?
3. The Dangerous Dead in Society
4. Rest in Peace (and Don't Come Back): Hovering on the Threshold of Death's Door
5. Understanding Stories (1): The Spoken and Written Word
6. Understanding Stories (2): Vampires in Print
7. Understanding Corpses: The Evidence of Burial Archaeology
Part II: Dynamics
8. The Circumpolar World and Northern Asia: Corpses and Life-Forces
9. India and China: Lumpen Corpses and Lustful Hyena-Women
10. Flying Demons and Dangerous Women
11. The 'Carmilla Template' in China and the Eastern Roman Empire
12. Wonder-Working Women: The Power and the Danger
Part III: From the Ancient Middle East to the Early Medieval North
13. Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome before Christ
14. The Later Roman World and Christianity
15. The British Isles and Northern Francia, 200-600: Social Trauma, Wise-Women, and Mortuary Theatre
16. The Christian English, 600-700 (1): Saintly Women and Holy Incorrupt Bodies
17. The Christian English, 600-700 (2): Sinister Women and Dangerous Incorrupt Bodies
18. Francia, England, and Scandinavia, 700-1000
Part IV: Europe in the High Middle Ages
19. Motifs Taking Shape: The Making of the 'European Vampire'
20. An Icelandic Epidemic?
21. The English Walking Dead, 1000-1200 (1): Stories and Corpses
22. The English Walking Dead, 1000-1200 (2): Breaking God's Law and the King's
23. Central and Southern Europe, 1000-1400
Part V: Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
24. The Eurasian Reservoir of Beliefs: Night-Battlers, Damned Huntsmen, and Bloodsucking Corpses
25. Life-Forces, Shape-Shifters, and Dangerous Corpses: Eastern Europe, 1400-1750
26. The Dead Retreat Northward Again: England and Scotland, 1200-1750
27. Noxious Corpses and Noisy Shroud-Eaters: The German-Speaking Lands in the Age of Reformation
28. Movers and Shakers: Active Corpses in Bohemia and Silesia, 1330-1600
29. The Dangerous Dead between Witchcraft and the Enlightenment: East-Central Europe, 1550-1700
30. From Moravia to Transylvania: The Carpathian Arc, 1700-25
31. Vampires in the News, 1725-57
Part VI: The Modern World: Towards Folklore and Fiction
32. Vampires for a Scientific Age: Pennsylvania and New England
33. 'The Horrible Scenes of Old Time': Europe after 1750
34. Vampires of Colonialism and Slavery
Conclusion: The Dangerous Dead as Mirrors of Reality
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Sources and Credits
Index