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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
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A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explor...
A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual. This expanded edition includes her 1995 article "Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective," which takes a broader perspective on the book's themes. It also includes a new introduction that explores the context in which the book and article were written, as well as why the Middle Ages matter for how we think about the body and life after death today.
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- Creator
- Caroline Walker Bynum
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]
- ©2017
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9780231546089, 0231546084
- OCLC
- on1083593727
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction to the 2017 Edition: What's New about the Medieval? -- Preface to the 1995 Edition: Acknowledgments and Methodological Musings -- Introduction to the 1995 Edition: Seed Images, Ancient and Modern -- Part One: The Patristic Background -- 1. Resurrection and Martyrdom: The Decades Around 200 -- 2. Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Debates of 400 and Their Background -- Part Two: The Twelfth Century -- 3. Reassemblage and Regurgitation: Ideas of Bodily Resurrection in Early Scholasticism -- 4. Psychosomatic Persons and Reclothed Skeletons: Images of Resurrection in Spiritual Writing and Iconography -- 5. Resurrection, Heresy, and Burial ad Sanctos: The Twelfth-Century Context -- Part Three: The Decades Around 1300 -- 6. Resurrection, Hylomorphism, and Abundantia: Scholastic Debates in the Thirteenth Century -- 7. Somatomorphic Soul and Visio Dei: The Beatific Vision Controversy and Its Background -- 8. Fragmentation and Ecstasy: The Thirteenth-Century Context -- Afterword: Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective / Bynum, Caroline -- Illustration Credits -- General Index -- Index of Secondary Authors
Subjects
- Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Resurrection -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Resurrection -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.