Eamon Duffy

Peter Biller

Alastair J. Minnis

Customer Alastair J Alastair J Minnis

Senior Lecturer in History Peter Biller

GB). Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference (1995 : York) University of York (York

An introductory essay by Peter Biller on medieval and contemporary concerns with the body is followed by Alcuin Blamire's examination of the paradoxes inherent in the metaphor of man as head, woman as body, in authors ranging from St Augustine to Christine de Pizan. Peter Abelard, a writer who 'dislocated' this image, is the principal figure of the next two papers. David Luscombe's study looks successively at Abelard's view of the role of senses in relation to thought and mind, the problem of body in resurrected beings, and dualities in his correspondence with Heloise. W.G.

Books like Medieval Theology and the Natural Body

Your next favorite book is out there