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Medieval theology and the natural body
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- Book Synopsis
- New interdisciplinary essays on the treatment of the body in medieval theology. 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. PETER BILLER is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale Univesrity. Contributors: PETER BILLER, ALCUIN BLAMIRES, DAVID LUSCOMBE, W.G. EAST, A.J. MINNIS, DYAN ELLIOTT, ROSALYNN VOADEN, EAMON DUFFY
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780952973409
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- York Medieval Press, (25 September 1997)
- Number of Pages
- 244
- Weight
- 538 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 13 mm
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