Last things : death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages / edited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bynum, Caroline Walker.

Freedman, Paul, 1949-

Series:

Middle Ages series.

The Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eschatology--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Eschatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of time. But they also meant the last things that would come to each individual separately-not just the place, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, to which their souls would go but also the accounting, the calling to reckoning, that would come at the end of life. At different periods in the Middle Ages one or the other of these sorts of "last things" tended to be dominant, but both coexisted throughout. In Last Things, Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman bring together eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages and on the ways in which they expose different sensibilities, different theories of the human person, and very different understandings of the body, of time, of the end. Exploring such themes as the significance of dying and the afterlife, apocalyptic time, and the eschatological imagination, each essay in the volume enriches our understanding of the eschatological awarenesses of the European Middle Ages.

Contents:

part I. The significance of dying and the afterlife

part II. Apocalyptic time

part III. The eschatological imagination.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283898881

1283898888

9780812208450

0812208455

OCLC:

835401330