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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Lectures on the History of Religions, No. 15)

Author Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher Columbia University Press
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ISBN / ASIN0231081278
ISBN-139780231081276
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Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual.