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How the dead danced with the living in medieval society

  • Written by Ashby Kinch, Professor of English, The University of Montana
imageDetail of figures from the Dance Macabre, Meslay-le-Grenet, from late 15th-century France. Ashby Kinch, CC BY

In the Halloween season, American culture briefly participates in an ancient tradition of making the world of the dead visible to the living: Children dress as skeletons, teens go to horror movies and adults play the part of ghosts in...

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