by Caroline Walker Bynum (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 20 Dec 1994
ISBN 10: 023108126X
ISBN 13: 9780231081269