One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett explores how beliefs, and the supernatural played a role in the minds of the medieval man.

The medieval dead shared the world with the living: the cult of the saints, encounters with the dead, and visions of the next world were all seen as proof of a two-way traffic between this world and the next.

http://www.open2.net/medievalmind/belief.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bartlett_%28historian%29

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