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

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

by Caroline Walker Bynum (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 20 Dec 1994

ISBN 10: 023108126X
ISBN 13: 9780231081269