Last Things : : Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages /

Last Things : : Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Caroline Walker Bynum, Paul Freedman.

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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 jus...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Backman, Clifford R.,
Brown, Peter,
Bynum, Caroline Walker,
Daniel, E. Randolph,
Freedman, Paul,
Gragnolati, Manuele,
Harrison, Anna,
Hudson, Benjamin,
Jung, Jacqueline E.,
Papka, Claudia Rattazzi,
Smoller, Laura A.,
Stahl, Harvey,
Straw, Carole,
HerausgeberIn:
Bynum, Caroline Walker,
Freedman, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2000
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 17 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Significance of Dying and the Afterlife
  • Settling Scores: Eschatology in the Church of the Martyrs
  • The Decline of the Empire of God: Amnesty, Penance, and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
  • From Jericho to Jerusalem: The Violent Transformation of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne
  • From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva's Book of the Three Scriptures
  • Part II: Apocalyptic Time
  • Time Is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church
  • Exodus and Exile: Joachim of Fiore's Apocalyptic Scenario
  • Arnau de Vilanova and the Body at the End of the World
  • Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages
  • Part III: The Eschatological Imagination
  • Community Among the Saintly Dead: Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermonsfor the Feast of All Saints
  • Heaven in View: The Place of the Elect in an Illuminated Book of Hours
  • The Limits of Apocalypse: Eschatology, Epistemology, and Textuality in the Commedia and Piers Plowman
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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