Medieval Theology and the Natural Body

New interdisciplinary essays on the treatment of the body in medieval theology.

List of contents

John of Naples, Quodlibets and Medieval Theological Concern with the Body - Peter Biller
Paradox in the Medieval Gender Doctrine of Head and Body - Alcuin Blamires
Peter Abelard's Carnal Thoughts - David Luscombe
This Body of Death: Abelard, Heloise and the Religious Life - W.G. East
Cathars and Material Women - Peter Biller
De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and Medieval Impediments to Female Ordination - Alastair J Minnis
The Physiology of Rapture and Female Spirituality - Dyan Elliott
Beholding Men's Members: The Sexualizing of Transgression in The Book of Margery Kempe - Rosalynn Voaden
Finding St Francis: Early Images, Early Lives - Eamon Duffy

Product details

• Authors: Peter Biller
• Assisted by: Alastair J Alastair J Minnis (Editor), Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis (Editor), Peter Biller (Editor), A. J. Minnis (Editor), Alastair J Minnis (Editor), Alastair J. Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.1997
• EAN: 9780952973409
• ISBN: 978-0-9529734-0-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: York Studies in Medieval Theol
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Theologie, Christentum, Geschichte der Religion, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Medieval, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, History - General History