The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336

The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
ISBN-10
023108126X
ISBN-13
9780231081269
Category
History
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Caroline Walker Bynum

Description

Examining those periods between the late second and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western conceptions of death and resurrection, she suggests that the attitudes toward the body emerging from these discussions still undergird our modern conceptions of personal identity and the individual.

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