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Last things : death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

Title: Last things : death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages / edited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

viii, 363 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The Middle Ages series

Uniform Title

Middle Ages series.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction / Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman -- Pt. I. The Significance of Dying and the Afterlife. Settling Scores: Eschatology in the Church of the Martyrs / Carole Straw. The Decline of the Empire of God: Amnesty, Penance, and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages / Peter Brown. From Jericho to Jerusalem: The Violent Transformation of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne / Jacqueline E. Jung. From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva's Book of the Three Scriptures / Manuele Gragnolati -- Pt. II. Apocalyptic Time. Time Is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church / Benjamin Hudson. Exodus and Exile: Joachim of Fiore's Apocalyptic Scenario / E. Randolph Daniel. Arnau de Vilanova and the Body at the End of the World / Clifford R. Backman. Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages / Laura A. Smoller -- Pt. III. The Eschatological Imagination.
Community Among the Saintly Dead: Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints / Anna Harrison. Heaven in View: The Place of the Elect in an Illuminated Book of Hours / Harvey Stahl. The Limits of Apocalypse: Eschatology, Epistemology, and Textuality in the Commedia and Piers Plowman / Claudia Rattazzi Papka.

ISBN

LCCN

99034223

OCLC

ocm41497104

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries