Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 Hardcover - 1995
by Bynum, Caroline Walker
In The Resurrection of the Body, noted scholar Caroline Bynum addressed the idea of bodily resurrection in the ancient and medieval West with respect to persecution and conversion, social hierachy, and cultural burial practices. Bynum suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose in these times still undergird our modern notions of the individual.
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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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- Title Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
- Author Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 1995
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780231081269
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/1995, Page 780
- Library Journal, 12/01/1994, Page 97
- Publishers Weekly, 12/12/1994, Page 0
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