Last Things Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages Edited by
Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman ""Last Things" will repay
the serious attention of readers concerned with any aspect of
medieval religion."--"Speculum" 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.
Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval History at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the
author and editor of numerous books, including "The Resurrection of
the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336," "Holy Feast and Holy
Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women," and
"Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern
Germany and Beyond," winner of the Award for Excellence in the
Historical Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.
Paul Freedman is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the
author of various articles and books, including "Images of the
Medieval Peasant" and "The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval
Catalonia." The Middle Ages Series 1999 376 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 17
illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1702-5 Paper $29.95s 19.50 World Rights
History, Religion Short copy: Eleven essays that focus on the
competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.
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