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Author Bynum, Caroline Walker.

Title The Resurrection of the body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 / Caroline Walker Bynum.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c1995.

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Description xx, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Lectures on the history of religions ; new ser., no. 15
Lectures on the history of religions ; new ser., no. 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction : seed images, ancient and modern -- Resurrection and martyrdom : the decades around 200 -- Resurrection, relic cult, and asceticism : the debates of 400 and their background -- Reassemblage and regurgitation : ideas of bodily resurrection in early scholaticism -- Psychosomatic persons and reclothed skeletons : images of resurrection in spiritual writing and iconography -- Resurrection, heresy, and burial ad Sanctos : the twelfth-century context -- Resurrection, hylomorphism, and Abundantia : scholatic debates in the thirteenth century -- Somatomorphic soul and Visio Dei : the beatific vision controversy and its background -- Fragmentation and ecstasy : the thirteenth-century context.
Subject Resurrection -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
Resurrection -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
ISBN 0231081278 (pbk.)
023108126X (alk. paper)

 
    
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