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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Hardcover, New)
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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions
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In The Resurrection of the Body Caroline Bynum forges a new path of
historical inquiry by studying the notion of bodily resurrection in
the ancient and medieval West against the background of persecution
and conversion, social hierarchy, burial practices, and the cult of
saints. 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. Bynum describes how Christian thinkers clung to a very
literal notion of resurrection, despite repeated attempts by some
theologians and philosophers to spiritualize the idea. Focusing on
the metaphors and examples used in theological and philosophical
discourse and on artistic depictions of saints, death, and
resurrection, Bynum connects the Western obsession with bodily
return to a deep-seated fear of biological process and a tendency
to locate identity and individuality in body. Of particular
interest is the imaginative religious imagery, often bizarre to
modern eyes, which emerged during medieval times. Bynum has
collected here thirty-five examples of such imagery, which
illuminate her discussion of bodily resurrection. With this
detailed study of theology, piety, and social history, Bynum writes
a new chapter in the history of the body and challenges our views
on gender, social hierarchy, and difference.
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