The Resurrection of the Body: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (ACLS Lectures on the History of Religions)

by Caroline Walker Bynum (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $141.53

  Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual.

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $36.29

  Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. She explores the plethora of ideas about resurrection in patristic and medieval literature--the metaphors, tropes, and arguments in which the ideas were garbed, their context and their consequences, in order to understand human life after death.