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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bynum, Caroline Walker, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Lectures on the history of religions ; new ser., no. 15.

Lectures on the history of religions ; new ser., no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resurrection--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Resurrection.

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

Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Human body.

Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 368 p., [35] p. of plates ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

A classic of medieval studies, this book traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction to the 2017 Edition: What's New About the Medieval?

Preface to the 1995 Edition: Acknowledgments and Methodological Musings

Introduction to the 1995 Edition: Seed Images, Ancient and Modern

Part I. The Patristic Background

1. Resurrection and Martyrdom: The Decades Around 200

2. Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Debates of 400 and Their Background

Part II. The Twelfth Century

3. Reassemblage and Regurgitation: Ideas of Bodily Resurrection in Early Scholasticism

4. Psychosomatic Persons and Reclothed Skeletons: Images of Resurrection in Spiritual Writing and Iconography

5. Resurrection, Heresy, and Burial ad Sanctos: The Twelfth-Century Context

Part III. The Decades Around 1300

6. Resurrection, Hylomorphism, and Abundantia: Scholastic Debates in the Thirteenth Century

7. Somatomorphic Soul and Visio Dei: The Beatific Vision Controversy and Its Background

8. Fragmentation and Ecstasy: The Thirteenth-Century Context

Afterword: Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective

Illustration Credits

General Index

Index of Secondary Authors

Plates.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed February 21, 2023)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780231546089

0231546084

9780231515627

0231515626

9780231081276

0231081278

OCLC:

1371186775

Publisher Number:

2027/heb01082 hdl