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Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)
Caroline Walk Bynum
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Description for Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)
Paperback. Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages. Editor(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker; Freedman, Paul H. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
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, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812217025
SKU
V9780812217025
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About Caroline Walk Bynum
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 ... Read more
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"Last Things will repay the serious attention of readers concerned with any aspect of medieval religion."
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