Medieval Theology and the Natural Body

List of contents

Finding St Francis - early images, early lives, Eamon Duffy; 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; 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, A.J. Minnis; the physiology of rapture and female spirituality, Dyan Elliott; beholding men's members - sexualizing transgression in "The Book of Margery Kempe", Rosalynn Voaden.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Biller, Eamon Duffy
• Assisted by: Peter Biller (Editor), A. J. Minnis (Editor), Alastair J. Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: York Studies in Medieval Theol
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories