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Medieval Theology and the Natural Body
By Peter Biller
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The attitudes towards the human body held by different branches of medieval theology are currently a major focus of scholarly attention. This first volume from York Medieval Press includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body, Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995 Quodlibet Lecture given by Eamon Duffy on the early iconography and `lives' of St Francis of Assisi.
The new scholarly essays collected here explore ways in which the human body - a major focus of attention in recent work on literary theory and cultural studies -was treated by several branches of medieval theology; they are derived in the mainfrom a conference held at York in 1995, under the title `This Body of Death', together with further invited papers on the same theme. It includes the first of the Annual Quodlibet Lectures in medieval theology, Eamon Duffy's masterly study of the early iconography and `lives' of St Francis of Assisi. PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York. Contributors: PETER BILLER, ALCUIN BLAMIRES, DAVID LUSCOMBE, W.G. EAST, A.J. MINNIS, DYAN ELLIOTT, ROSALYNN VOADEN, EAMON DUFFY
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1997-12-01
Publication Date:
1997-09-25
Publisher:
York Medieval Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0952973405
ISBN13:
9780952973409
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Minimum Reading Age:
1
Maximum Reading Age:
110
Weight:
552 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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