Scientific American, 2017: "For some, the non-living were just another age group. 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 haunted houses.
But what if the dead played a more active, more participatory role in our daily lives? It might appear to be a strange question, but as a scholar of late medieval literature and art...

Scientific American, 2017: "For some, the non-living were just another age group. 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 haunted houses.
But what if the dead played a more active, more participatory role in our daily lives? It might appear to be a strange question, but as a scholar of late medieval literature and art...